Broken engagements : the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in modern legal history.
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Table of 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.