Victorian Honeymoons : Journeys to the Conjugal

Name: Victorian Honeymoons
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521868747
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521868747

by Helena Michie

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 0521868742

ISBN-13 9780521868747

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 21st, 2006

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 6 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Sociology Sociology: customs & traditions Social and cultural history

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This cultural history of the honeymoon explores accounts in novels such as Middlemarch, conduct material, and a case study of 61 real-life honeymooning couples through private letters and diaries. Helena Michie uncovers the meaning of the honeymoon for Victorian expectations of marriage.

While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit.

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