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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Hardcover)
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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Hardcover)
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This three-volume set brings together a rich collection of primary
source materials on flirtation and courtship in the
nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial
apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials
included Throughout the long nineteenth-century, a woman's life was
commonly thought to fall into three discrete developmental stages;
personal formation and a gendered education; a young woman's
entrance onto the marriage market; and finally her emergence at the
apogee of normative femininity as wife and mother. In all three
stages of development, there was an unspoken awareness of the
duplicity at the heart of this carefully cultivated femininity.
What women were taught, no matter their age, was that if you
desired anything in life, it behooved you to perform indifference.
This meant that for women, the art of flirtation and feigning
indifference were viewed as essential survival skills that could
guarantee success in life. These three volumes document the many
ways in which nineteenth-century women were educated in this
seemingly universal wisdom, but just as frequently managed to
manipulate, subvert, and navigate their way through such proscribed
norms to achieve their own desires. Presenting a wide range of
documents from novels, memoirs, literary journals, newspapers,
plays, poetry, songs, parlour games, and legal documents, this
collection will illuminate a far more diverse set of options
available to women in their quest for happiness, and a new
understanding of the operations of courtship and flirtation, the
"central" concerns of a nineteenth-century woman's life. The
volumes will be of interest to scholars of history, literature,
gender and cultural studies, with an interest in the
nineteenth-century.
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