Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Drawn largely from Charles Johnson's "Village opera", Wycherley's "Gentleman dancing master", and Marivaux's "Jeu de l'amour et du hazard".

Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Drawn largely from Charles Johnson's "Village opera", Wycherley's "Gentleman dancing master", and Marivaux's "Jeu de l'amour et du hazard".

Author: Dublin Public Libraries
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020

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Author: Sally Holloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019882307X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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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Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Peter A. Tasch
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838779378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Patricia H. Virga
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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