Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940

ISBN-13: 9780199569977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 230 str.

Saskia Lettmaier

Opis

This text explores ideals of femininity during the 19th and early 20th centuries by charting responses to broken engagements. Interweaving a history of the legal remedies available for a broken promise of marriage with literary accounts from Dickens to Wodehouse, it offers an insight into modern attitudes to female identity.

Recenzje

...knowledgable and wide-ranging investigation into the history of the common law action for breach of promise of marriage...she [Lettmaier] has convincingly straddled the disciplinary divide between legal history and literary criticism.

O autorze

Saskia Lettmaier is a jurist trained in both Anglo-American and German law. She obtained her B.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 2002, being awarded a First as well as the St. Anne's College Law Prize. She holds a German law degree, an LL.M. degree from Harvard University (2003) and a doctorate in Cultural Studies from the University of Bamberg (summa cum laude, 2007). She has lectured in law and in Victorian culture at the universities of Bamberg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Cork, and published articles on law as well as on the intersection between law and literature. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg and an S.J.D. Candidate and Fritz Thyssen Scholar at the Harvard Law School, where she also serves on the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.