[Free and download] Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History)
| #4675435 in Books | 2010-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.10 | File Name: 0199569975 | 230 pages
|||...knowledgable and wide-ranging investigation into the history of the common law action for breach of promise of marriage...she [Lettmaier] has convincingly straddled the disciplinary divide between legal history and literary criticism. * Silvia Mergenthal,
This text explores ideals of femininity during the 19th and early 20th 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, it offers an insight into modern attitudes to female identity.
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