'Gilded Prostitution' : Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914

ISBN-13: 9780415632522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 360 str.

Maureen E. Montgomery

Opis

This text examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Expatriate Tradition  1. Transatlantic Travellers: 'Discoverers of a Kind of Hymeneal North-West Passage'  Part 2: The American Leisure Class  2. 'Pecuniary Competition' and the Search for Status: New York’s High Society  3. 'For Them He Slaves': American Women of the Leisure Class  Part 3: Americans in London Society  4. American Invasion or Aristocratic Embrace? The Entry of Americans in London’s High Society After 1870  5. The London Marriage Market  Part 4: 'Gilded Prostitution': Money and Marriage  6. Title for Money: The Persistence of a Cliché  7. The American Heiress: The Formation of a Stereotype  8. Speculation, Sensation, and Scandal: The American Response to Titled Marriages  Part 5: Titled Americans  9. Wives and Mothers: The Domestic Roles of Titled Americans  10. Hostesses, Political Campaigners, and Actresses: Titled Americans and their Public Roles.  Conclusion: Stereotypes and Their Function.  Appendices: Peers who Married Americans 1870-1914. Younger Songs who Married Americans 1870-1914. Control Groups: Peers who Married 1880-9 and 1900-9. Control Groups: Younger Sons who Married 1880-9 and 1900-9. Probate Calendar Valuations (Peers and their Spouses). Peers who Married Americans 1915-39. Men who Married Americans 1870-1914 and who were Subsequently Raised to the Peerage. Transatlantic Marriages and Family Connections. Case Group: Total Acreage and Gross Annual Rental. Data on Offspring.