“A Triumph of Hope over Experience”: Chance and Choice in the History of Marriage

International Review of Social History

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

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EID: 84937182627     PISSN: 00208590     EISSN: 1469512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002085909900036X     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. The concept of “deep play” originated with the anthropologist Clifford Geertz; for an imaginative application to history, see Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (Williamsburg, 1982).
2. John R. Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values (New York, 1996), ch. vii
3. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, The Normal Chaos of Love (Cambridge, 1995), ch. vi.
4. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Birth as an American Rite of Passage (Berkeley, 1992)
5. Michael Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death (New York, 1989).
6. Alan Macfarlane, The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property, and Social Transition (Oxford, 1978)
7. Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (New York, 1977)
8. Edward Shorter, The Making of the Modern Family (New York, 1975).
9. Keith Wrightson, English Society, 1580–1680 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1982), ch. iii
10. John R. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present (New York, 1985), part I.
11. Ellen Rothman, Hearts and Hands: A History of Courtship in America (Cambridge, MA, 1987)
12. Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Men, Women, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America (New York, 1989).
13. John R. Gillis, “Conjugal Settlements: Resort to Clandestine and Common Law Marriage in England and Wales, 1650–1850”, in John Bossy (ed.), Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West (Cambridge, 1983).
14. Gillis, For Better, For Worse, part II.
15. Jackson Lears, The Gambler's Search: Grace, Luck, and Fortune in American Cultural History (forthcoming).
16. John R. Gillis, “From Ritual to Romance: Toward an Alternative History of Love”, in Carol Z. Stearns and Peter N. Stearns (eds), Emotion and Social Change: Toward a New Psychohistory (New York, 1988), pp. 87–121.
17. Lystra, Searching the Heart, passim; Gillis, A World of Their Own Making, ch. vii
18. Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, The Normal Chaos of Love, chs i, ii, vi.
19. Gillis, A World of Their Own Making, ch. xi
20. Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, The Normal Chaos of Love, chs i and ii.
21. Kay Deaux and Randel Hanna, “Courtship in the Personals Column: The Influence of Gender and Sexual Orientation”, Sex Roles, xi (1984), pp. 363–375
22. Stanley Wolf and Peter Young, “Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right: Self-Presentation in Videodating”, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51 (1989), pp. 483–488.
23. Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, The Normal Chaos of Love, ch. vi
24. Gillis, A World of Their Own Making, ch. vii.