Wing to wing, oar to oar : readings on courting and marrying
"Intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and, especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a life"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind., ©2000
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xv, 636 pages ; 25 cm.
9780268019594, 9780268019600, 0268019592, 0268019606
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Where are we now? Assessing our situation. From front porch to back seat / Bailey "Passionate attachments in the West in historical perspective" / Stone
"Relationships" / Bloom
"I do?" / Blankenhorn
Why marry? Defenses of matrimony. "This is the question / Darwin
"Of marriage goods" / Aquinas
"Of marriage and single life" / Bacon
Pride and prejudice : for love or money? / Austen
"Some reflections on marriage" / Kierkegaard
"Monogamy and its discontents" / Tucker
"Men and women
can we be friends?" / Meilaender 'Speaking personally" / Borowitz
"The annunciation" / Muir
What about sex? Man, woman, and sexuality. The coupling of Ares and Aphrodite / Homer
The anthropology of sex / Genesis 2:4-4:2
Emile : sexual complementarity / Rousseau
The story of Candaules and Gyges / Herodotus
On shame and love / Kant
"Comment on the social psychology of shame" / Riezler
"Four mischievous theories of sex / May
Is this love? Eros and its aims. "The word love" / Divakaruni
Aristophanes' Speech on Eros ; Socrates' speech on Eros / Plato Symposium
The Song of Songs"
"The Tristan myth" / De Rougemont
Romeo and Juliet / Shakespeare
Emile : educating for love / Rousseau
Sonnets 18, 115, and 116 / Shakespeare Letters on love / Rilke
"Eros" / Lewis. How can I find and win the right one? Courtship. Miss Manners advice on courtship / Martin
Genesis 24 : Finding a wife for Isaac
Genesis 29-31 : Jacob finds a wife
"The engagement : a story" / Abraham
The people of the Sierra / Pitt-Rivers
"Courtship" : a colloquy / Erasmus
The tempest / Shakespeare
As you like it / Shakespeare
"Reflections on courtship and marriage" / Franklin
"The Elysian fields" / Franklin
The courtship of Pierre and Hélène / Tolstoy
Anna Karenina : Levin' proposal to Kitty / Tolstoy
Pride and prejudice : the courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth / Austen
Why a wedding? The promises of marriage. "The covenant of marriage" / May
Marriage vows and blessings
"Active love, or keeping faith" / De Rougemont
"The marriage name" / Kass and Kass
What can married life be like? The blessings of married life. The reunion of Penelope and Odysseus
The friendship of husband and wife / Aristotle
Childless love / Jewish Midrash
"The married man : reservist of the line" / Kipling
Letter to Sarah / Ballou
Democracy in America : marriage and mores / Tocqueville
Emile : married letters / Rousseau
Lasting love / Kierkegaard
Bed and board : liturgies of home / Capon
War and peace : first epilogue : parents and children / Tolstoy
"The Master speed" / Frost