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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      21 December 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511484889
      9780521868747
      9780521123563
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484889
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (53)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (53)
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    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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    Review of the hardback:'Honeymoons … constitutes strong evidence for a new convergence between literary andhistorical method. Lucidly written, scrupulously documented, and imaginatively rendered …'

    Source: Journal of British Studies

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