Description: Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture, Paperback by Holloway, Sally, ISBN 0192870998, ISBN-13 9780192870995, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Th 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. Th 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.
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Book Title: Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Mater
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Sally Holloway
Series: Emotions in History Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
