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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Learning to Become a Woman (Hardcover)
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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Learning to Become a Woman (Hardcover)
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This is volume one of a three-volume set that 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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