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

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Tague
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Georgian England

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sally Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Art History ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Georgian England

The introduction sets out the central aim of the book to rediscover the emotional experience of courtship, asking, what did it mean to marry in Georgian England? It introduces the sixty key couples from a broad variety of social and occupational groups, using materials drawn from thirty archives and museum collections. The chapter foregrounds the interdisciplinary methodologies used throughout the book, which draw upon anthropology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, and psychology to examine the cultural codes of love. It situates the chapters that follow among histories of emotions, romantic love, courtship, marriage, the family, and material culture.

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