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Searching the heart : women, men, and romantic love in nineteenth-century America / Karen Lystra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lystra, Karen, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--History--19th century.
- Love.
- Love-letters--United States--History--19th century.
- Love-letters.
- Courtship--United States--History--19th century.
- Courtship.
- Sex customs--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Conventional ideas of stuffy Victorian middle-class America are challenged by this study, based upon actual love letters of the period. The author examines middle-class ideas of love in terms of their contribution to the secularization of American life and to women's empowerment in the home.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1992.
- Bibliography: p325-328. - Includes index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771612-1
- 1-280-60013-6
- 0-19-802243-3
- 1-4237-3763-6
- 0-19-536063-X
- 1-60129-875-7
- OCLC:
- 1406787490
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