The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture

ISBN-13: 9780198823070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Sally Holloway

Opis

Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, often imagined as a tactical game. Sally Holloway uses a rich selection of material and written sources to explore the emotional experience of courtship between Georgian men and women, how love developed into a commercial industry, and what happened when engagements went awry.

Recenzje

Holloway's work is important for historians interested in gender, marriage and the law, but it also serves as a broader study in how to use material culture to understand the history of emotions. Her close attention to the ways in which courting couples used objects in a conscious attempt to create emotional experiences presents a model for thinking about how objects might function in other cultural situations. The breadth of her research, drawing from dozens of archives along with museums and private collections, is impressive ... Holloway has presented a welcome new way of thinking about early modern love and courtship, and this book should serve as a reference and model for scholars for years to come. Ingrid Tague, English Historical Review

O autorze

Sally Holloway is the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in History and History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Holloway is an historian of emotions, gender, material culture, and romantic relationships in Georgian England. After completing her AHRC-funded PhD at Royal Holloway in 2013, she worked on the Georgians season at Historic Royal Palaces, and taught at Queen Mary University of London, Oxford Brookes University, and Richmond, The American International University in London. With Stephanie Downes and Sarah Randles, she is co-editor of Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History (OUP, 2018).