Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying

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.