“New World Courtships is an engaging, insightful analysis of the possibilities raised in transatlantic texts by cross-cultural interaction and a model of the scholarly potential for comparative methodology. . . . The transatlantic alternatives and comparative possibilities examined in New World Courtships are an important illustration of the long-standing diversity of marital practice and discourse.”—Early American Literature
“New World Courtships is thought-provoking and original. . . . Adams-Campbell’s material is stimulating.”—Nineteenth Century Studies
“New World Courtships teaches us new ways to think about the relationship between cultural formation and the marriage plot, and it provocatively revises our sense of how (and why) the marriage plot functions in a new world context. This is an innovative project, and it will assuredly have a lasting impact on the field of early US literary studies.”—Duncan Faherty, associate professor of English, Queens College