Sin, sanctity and the sister-in-law : marriage with a deceased wife’s sister in the nineteenth century / by David G. Barrie.

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ISBN
9781351247856 (e-book : PDF)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Barrie, David G.
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
©2019.
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (224 pages) : 5 illustrations
İçindekiler Notu
chapter Introduction -- chapter Contexts, themes and debates -- chapter Print culture and parameters -- chapter 1 ‘A Passage in Our History which We Could not Look Back Upon without Shame’: The roots of discontent, c.1835–4824 Introduction -- chapter 2 Restraining the ‘Devil in Our Sisters’: James Wortley’s Marriage Affinity Bills and the Scottish response, 1849–5147 Introduction -- chapter 3 The ‘Misery of Scotch Law’: Political discourses, legal precedents and cultural representations, c.1851–6971 Introduction -- chapter 4 ‘Sleeping While the Enemy is Busy Sowing His Tares’: The challenge to scripture, c.1851–8886 Introduction -- chapter 5 ‘The Man is Everything, and the Woman Nothing’: Protecting, purifying and conceptualising the family, c.1862–88109 Introduction -- chapter 6 ‘It is Too Readily Assumed that all Those Who are Opposed to this Kind of Marriage are Idiots’: Public opinion, print and personal conscience, 1862–1906136 Introduction -- chapter 7 ‘It is Time this Controversy should End’: Reform and reaction.
Özet, vb.
This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife’s sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ecclesiastical and sexual passions. The campaign to legalise such unions, and the widespread opposition it provoked, spoke to issues not just of incest, sex and the family, but also to national identity and political and religious governance.
Konu
Marriage with deceased wife's sister __ Social aspects __ Great Britain.
Marriage with deceased wife's sister.
Marriage with deceased wife's sister __ Social aspects __ Great Britain.
Marriage with deceased wife's sister __ England __ History __ 19th century.
Marriage with deceased wife's sister __ Great Britain __ History __ 19th century.
Marriage with deceased wife's sister __ Scotland __ History __ 19th century.
HISTORY / Social History. __ bisacsh
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Taylor and Francis.
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Taylor & Francis
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