State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies 9781481302739, 9781481302746, 9781481300513, 2013048779

State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a clos

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State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
 9781481302739, 9781481302746, 9781481300513, 2013048779

Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marriage and the Nation
1 Abuse, Murder, and Discipline in Marriage
2 Constituting the Divorced Citizen and Saving the Nation
3 Polygamy and the Relics of Barbarism
4 Free Love, Licentiousness, and Civic Identity
5 Miscegenation and the Future of Civilization
Conclusion: State of the (Marital) Union
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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