Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 - Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History - Lettmaier, Saskia (Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg and S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199569977 - April 19, 2010
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Lettmaier, Saskia (Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg and S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School)
Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 - Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History

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This book explores ideals of femininity during the nineteenth and early twentieth 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, the book offers a major insight into modern attitudes to female identity.

230 pages, Illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 19, 2010
ISBN13 9780199569977
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 164 × 242 × 19 mm   ·   498 g
Language English  

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