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Theiss argues that the cult was widely accepted because it coincided with the emergence of new ideals of companionate marriage and individual moral responsibility that challenged the prioritization of filiality as a moral value. That companionate marriage, which was invented only in the 19th century, doesn't work. She is shrewd on Bowen's Irishness, her complicated childhood and adolescence, her long and happy but probably companionate marriage, her love affairs, her literary and social friendships, her accomplishments. |
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