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Book/Printed Material Irregular unions : clandestine marriage in early modern English literature

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Title

  • Irregular unions : clandestine marriage in early modern English literature

Summary

  • "Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of the practice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Cleland, Katharine, 1982- author.

Created / Published

  • Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Contents

  • Reforming clandestine marriage in Spenser's Faerie queene, book I -- "Wanton loves and young desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation -- Sacred ceremonies and private contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A lover's complaint -- "Lorenzo and his infidel": elopement and the cross-cultural household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -- "Are you fast married?": elopement and turning Turk in Shakespeare's Othello -- Conclusion: incestuous clandestine marriage in John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore.

Headings

  • -  Clandestinity (Canon law)
  • -  English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism
  • -  Marriage in literature

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN56.M28

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020015144

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Cleland, Katharine, Author. Irregular unions: clandestine marriage in early modern English literature. [Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020015144/.

APA citation style:

Cleland, K. (2021) Irregular unions: clandestine marriage in early modern English literature. [Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020015144/.

MLA citation style:

Cleland, Katharine, Author. Irregular unions: clandestine marriage in early modern English literature. [Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2021] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020015144/>.