Book contents
- The Origins of the English Marriage Plot
- The Origins of the English Marriage Plot
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Historicising the English Marriage Plot
- Chapter 1 Church, State and the Public Politics of Marriage
- Chapter 2 Clandestine Marriage, Commerce and the Theatre
- Chapter 3 The New Fiction
- Chapter 4 The Patriot Marriage Plot
- Chapter 5 Literary Marriage Plots
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction - Historicising the English Marriage Plot
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
- The Origins of the English Marriage Plot
- The Origins of the English Marriage Plot
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Historicising the English Marriage Plot
- Chapter 1 Church, State and the Public Politics of Marriage
- Chapter 2 Clandestine Marriage, Commerce and the Theatre
- Chapter 3 The New Fiction
- Chapter 4 The Patriot Marriage Plot
- Chapter 5 Literary Marriage Plots
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Four city blocks south of where I write these sentences in Baltimore, a banner hangs on the façade of a famous Unitarian church. Taking a stand in the debate over same-sex marriage, it reads: ‘Civil marriage is a civil right.’
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- The Origins of the English Marriage PlotLiterature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019