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the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940

"Broken engagements" was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 - Oxford, it has 209 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Broken engagements
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 209
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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  • Publish Location: Oxford

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  • Pagination: xix, 209 p. ;

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"Broken engagements" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Codifying womanhood : the Nineteenth-Century action for breach of promise of marriage as the legal expression of the ideal of true womanhood
  • 2- A structural inconsistency : the true woman and the breach-of-promise plantiff
  • 3- Breach of promise in the early Nineteenth Century (1800-50) : strategies of containment , a created inconsistency, and the aesthetic of the grotesque
  • 4- Breach of promise in the high Victorian Period (1850-1900) : the inconsistency unveiled, pinchbeck angels, and the dominance of satire
  • 5- Breach of promise in the Post-Victorian Period (1900-40) : a changing ideal the action's decline, and the symbolism of breach of promise.

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