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Broken engagements : the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 / Saskia Lettmaier.
LIBRA K690 .L48 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lettmaier, Saskia.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in modern legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Breach of promise--History.
- Breach of promise.
- Husband and wife--History.
- Husband and wife.
- Betrothal--Law and legislation.
- Betrothal.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 209 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Codifying womanhood : the Nineteenth-Century action for breach of promise of marriage as the legal expression of the ideal of true womanhood
- A structural inconsistency : the true woman and the breach-of-promise plantiff
- Breach of promise in the early Nineteenth Century (1800-50) : strategies of containment , a created inconsistency, and the aesthetic of the grotesque
- Breach of promise in the high Victorian Period (1850-1900) : the inconsistency unveiled, pinchbeck angels, and the dominance of satire
- Breach of promise in the Post-Victorian Period (1900-40) : a changing ideal the action's decline, and the symbolism of breach of promise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199569977
- 0199569975
- OCLC:
- 521744665
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