Sin, sanctity and the sister-in-law : marriage with a deceased wife's sister in the nineteenth century / by David G. Barrie.
2018
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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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Edition
First edition.
Imprint
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].
Copyright
©2019.
Description
1 online resource (224 pages) : 5 illustrations
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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.
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.
Summary
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.
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English
ISBN
9781351247856 (e-book : PDF)
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