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Graves, Tammy.

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The Marriage Market: From Eighteenth-Century England to Twentieth-Century New York.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Marriage Market: From Eighteenth-Century England to Twentieth-Century New York./
Author:	Graves, Tammy.
Description:	87 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International53-04(E).
Subject:	Gender studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1561480
ISBN:	9781321068313

The Marriage Market: From Eighteenth-Century England to Twentieth-Century New York.
Graves, Tammy.

The Marriage Market: From Eighteenth-Century England to Twentieth-Century New York. - 87 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--Truman State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis seeks to illuminate the legal traditions that governed the environments immortalized by Jane Austen and Edith Wharton and, going a step further, to show that the contractual approach to marriage that existed in both time periods was the result of the socially-ingrained adherence to those legal traditions. Starting with the representation of early British land law in Jane Austen's manuscripts and moving into an analysis of how the customs in Austen's time period were adopted in Old New York, this thesis explores the following ideas: (1) the practice of primogeniture established the necessity of marrying for financial stability, (2) social tradition proliferated the use of financial marriages long after their legal authority had faded, and (3) the inherent monetary structure of financial marriages led to the development of a new society where marriage became the vehicle by which Old New York was restructured into a largely consumerist society.

ISBN: 9781321068313Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122708
Gender studies.

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