The wedding complex forms of belonging in modern American culture /

Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

The wedding complex forms of belonging in modern American culture / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Freeman. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2002. - xix, 288 p. : ill. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
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.


Electronic books.

PS374.W39 / F74 2002