A triumph of hope over experience: Chance and choice in the history of marriage

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Gillis, JR
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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY | 1999年 / 44卷
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10.1017/S002085909900036X
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K [历史、地理];
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06 ;
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When Dr Johnson made his famous eighteenth-century remark about second marriages being a triumph of hope over experience, his wit could easily have been directed toward the unions that Steven King has illuminated. It is never entirely clear why people marry or choose to marry the people they do, a situation that is as frustrating to historians as to friends and family. Marriage remains one of life's great mysteries, perhaps the last great mystery left to us. It fascinates and absorbs us, providing an inexhaustible audience for daytime soap operas and evening situation comedies. Romance novels top the fiction charts; and Hollywood returns to the theme time and again. © 1999, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
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