The Game of Love in Georgian England
Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, often imagined as a tactical game. Sally Holloway uses a rich selection of material and written sources to explore the emotional experience of courtship between Georgian men and women,...
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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, often imagined as a tactical game. Sally Holloway uses a rich selection of material and written sources to explore the emotional experience of courtship between Georgian men and women, how love developed into a commercial industry, and what happened when engagements went awry.
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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts.The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.
Autoren-Porträt von Sally Holloway
Sally Holloway is the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in History and History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Holloway is an historian of emotions, gender, material culture, and romantic relationships in Georgian England. After completing her AHRC-funded PhD at Royal Holloway in 2013, she worked on the Georgians season at Historic Royal Palaces, and taught at Queen Mary University of London, Oxford Brookes University, and Richmond, The American International University in London. With Stephanie Downes and Sarah Randles, she is co-editor of Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History (OUP, 2018).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sally Holloway
- 2019, 244 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019882307X
- ISBN-13: 9780198823070
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Holloway's work is important for historians interested in gender, marriage and the law, but it also serves as a broader study in how to use material culture to understand the history of emotions. Her close attention to the ways in which courting couples used objects in a conscious attempt to create emotional experiences presents a model for thinking about how objects might function in other cultural situations. The breadth of her research, drawing from dozens of archives along with museums and private collections, is impressive ... Holloway has presented a welcome new way of thinking about early modern love and courtship, and this book should serve as a reference and model for scholars for years to come. Ingrid Tague, English Historical Review
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