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020 $a9780199569977 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aLettmaier, Saskia.
245 10 $aBroken engagements :$bthe action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 /$cSaskia Lettmaier.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $axix, 209 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aOxford studies in modern legal history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index.
505 0 $aCodifying womanhood : the Nineteenth-Century action for breach of promise of marriage as the legal expression of the ideal of true womanhood -- A structural inconsistency : the true woman and the breach-of-promise plantiff -- Breach of promise in the early Nineteenth Century (1800-50) : strategies of containment , a created inconsistency, and the aesthetic of the grotesque -- Breach of promise in the high Victorian Period (1850-1900) : the inconsistency unveiled, pinchbeck angels, and the dominance of satire -- Breach of promise in the Post-Victorian Period (1900-40) : a changing ideal the action's decline, and the symbolism of breach of promise.
650 0 $aBreach of promise$xHistory.
650 0 $aHusband and wife$xHistory.
650 0 $aBetrothal$xLaw and legislation.
830 0 $aOxford studies in modern legal history.