The Wedding Night: A Popular History

by Jane Merrill and Chris Filstrup

Book Overview

This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding night--its origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages.

Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence. The Wedding Night: A Popular History is an entertaining, accessible, touching, and humorous volume that looks at the previously unexplored topic of wedding history "between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313392102
• ISBN13: 9780313392108
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"