Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy

by Frances E . Dolan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $31.18

  Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what-or who-must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? Dolan reveals the contradiction that lies at the very heart of modern marriage. We have inherited from early modern England a model of marriage, she contends, so flawed that its logical consequence is conflict.