Joanne Bailey (Oxford Merton College)

Unquiet Lives

Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660 1800

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2003 study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It presents a new picture of power in marriage and the household, and shows also that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved during this period, influenced by profound shifts in cultural attitudes about sexuality and violence.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780521093118
• ISBN-10: 0521093112
• Artikelnr.: 25468227

Autorenporträt

Joanne Bailey is a Junior research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: assessing marriage
2. 'To have and to hold': analysing married life
3. 'For better, for worse': resolving marital difficulties
4. 'An honourable estate': marital roles in the household
5. 'With all my worldly goods I thee endow': spouses' contributions and possessions within marriage
6. 'Wilt thou obey him and serve him': the marital power balance
7. 'Forsaking all other': marital chastity
8. 'Till death us do part': life after a failed marriage
9. 'Mutual society, help and comfort': conclusion
Bibliography.