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The Game of Love in Georgian England - Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Hardcover)
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The Game of Love in Georgian England - Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Emotions in History
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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.
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