New World Courtships

New World Courtships

Author: Melissa M. Adams-Campbell

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1611688337

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Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel's marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely traced the effects of this influence through a monolithic understanding of marriage. New World Courtships is the first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that actively compare marriage practices from the Atlantic world. These texts trouble Enlightenment claims that companionate marriage leads to women's progress by comparing alternative systems for arranging marriage and sexual relations in the Americas. Attending to representations of marital diversity in early transatlantic novels disrupts nation-based accounts of the rise of the novel and its relation to "the" marriage plot. It also illuminates how and why cultural differences in marriage mattered in the Atlantic world - and shows how these differences might help us to reimagine marital diversity today. This book will appeal to scholars of literature, women's studies, and early American history.


Now, How Shall We Be? The Cultural Moment and our Christian Response

Now, How Shall We Be? The Cultural Moment and our Christian Response

Author: Ken Badley

Publisher: Canadian Bible Society

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1990103014

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Now, How Shall We Be? is a Christian response to the doubts that many people are expressing about both what we as a culture and nation have accomplished and what our prospects are for a positive future. It discusses biblically-framed insights that offer focus on postures that are essential to thinking and acting well in difficult times.


The Ten Facts of Evolution

The Ten Facts of Evolution

Author: Phillip Engle

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0972027424

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A book that resolves the conflict between Darwinism and intelligent design, between science and teleology, by means of Robert F. DeHaan's theory of evolution, called macrodevelopment.