Once again I find myself unable to rate theory books outside of my field - this is fascinating in how it depicts the narrative of love in literature as mapping, reflecting, and shaping the way so many of our cultures talk about love and the love match.
There's also something really interesting here in thinking about the role that early marriage played in Judaism, specifically in the halakhic literature but as discussed in the maskilic literature, and the general way that the past is seen and depicted as creating itself a new past.
I definitely should go back through this with a highlighter because the things that are most important to me in my halakha hat are kind of ancillary to the literary work that Seidman is doing, even as I appreciate the trajectory that she traces.