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Author Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Title The wedding complex [electronic resource] : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xix, 288 p. : ill.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
Contents Love among the ruins -- The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances -- "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Weddings in literature.
Same-sex marriage -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
Sexual orientation in literature.
Weddings in motion pictures.
Weddings in popular culture.
Weddings -- United States.
Culture in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822384007
0822384000
0822329530 (acid-free paper)
9780822329534 (acid-free paper)
0822329891 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822329893 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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