The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions & Material Culture
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 185738414
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198823070.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198823070
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the first book-length study of the making and breaking of courtships in Georgian England. It analyses the courtships of sixty couples - mostly lesser known men and women such as servants, sailors, ironmongers, merchants, clergymen and gentlewomen. It is based upon extensive archival research from more than thirty archives and museum collections, and material objects sourced from twenty-three antiques dealers, auction houses, archives, libraries, and private collections. The book uses this evidence to reveal how courting practices actively cultivated particular feelings, creating a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions in words and objects.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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