Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture,...

Description: Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture, Hardcover by Holloway, Sally, ISBN 019882307X, ISBN-13 9780198823070, 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 valentines 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: 240 Pages

Publication Name: Game of Love in Georgian England : Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Subject: Love & Romance, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2019

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18.9 Oz

Author: Sally Holloway

Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Social Science, History

Item Length: 9.5 in

Series: Emotions in History Ser.

Item Width: 6.4 in

Format: Hardcover