by Barbara Penner
"Newlyweds on Tour is the first historical study to trace the origins and growth of the American honeymoon between 1820 and 1900. Rather than treating the honeymoon as a simple by-product of the privatization of the family, this work argues that it was formed at the interstices between (and helped to articulate) a variety of narratives - patriotic, conjugal, sentimental, and sexual - that were central to the modern American national identity. To track these narratives, Barbara Penner moves between primary accounts of newlywed experiences recorded in diaries and letters in addition to a wide range of textual, visual, and architectural representations, matrimonial maps, engravings from the popular press, sensational novels, and palace hotel bridal chambers. Her wide-ranging interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates the specific ways in which newlyweds on tour prompted individual and collective feelings of attachment to the ideals of egalitarian marriage, domesticity, nation, or sentiment i
Roald Dahl
Zora Neale Hurston
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