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Searching the Heart : Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America 🔍
Karen Lystra Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press USA, New York, 1992
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In January 1862, Charles Godwin courted Harriet Russell, ultimately unsuccessfully, with the following lines:'Like cadences of inexpressibly sweet music, your kind words came to me: causing every nerve to vibrate as though electrified by some far off strain of heavenly harmony.'Almost ten years later, Albert Janin, upon receiving a letter from his beloved Violet Blair, responded with,'I kissed your letter over and over again, regardless of the small-pox epidemic at New York, and gave myself up to a carnival of bliss before breaking the envelope.'And in October 1883, Dorothea Lummis wrote candidly to her husband Charles,'I like you to want me, dear, and if I were only with you, I would embrace more than the back of your neck, be sure.'In Karen Lystra's richly provocative book, Searching the Heart, we hear the voices of Charles, Albert, Dorothea, and nearly one hundred other nineteenth-century Americans emerge from their surprisingly open, intimate, and emotional love letters. While historians of nineteenth-century America have explored a host of private topics, including courtship, marriage, birth control, sexuality, and sex roles, they have consistently neglected the study of romantic love. Lystra fills this gap by describing in vivid detail what it meant to fall in love in Victorian America. Based on a vast array of love letters, the book reveals the existence of a real openness--even playfulness--between male and female lovers which challenges and expands more traditional views of middle-class private life in Victorian America. Lystra refutes the common belief that Victorian men and women held passionlessness as an ideal in their romantic relationships. Enabling us to enter the hidden world of Victorian lovers, the letters they left behind offer genuine proof of the intensity of their most private interactions, feelings, behaviors, and judgments. Lystra discusses how Victorians anthropomorphized love letters, treating them as actual visits from their lovers, insisting on reading them in seclusion, sometimes kissing them (as Albert does with Violet's), and even taking them to bed. She also explores how courtship rituals--which included the setting and passing of tests of love--succeeded in building unique, emotional bonds between lovers, and how middle-class views of romantic love, which encouraged sharing knowledge and intimacy, gave women more power in the home. Through the medium of love letters, Searching the Heart allows us to enter, unnoticed, the Victorian bedroom and parlor. We will leave with a different view of middle-class Victorian America.
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Lystra, Karen
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IRL Press at Oxford University Press
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Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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German Historical Institute London
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New York: Oxford University Press
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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New York, New York State, 1989
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Edition Unstated, PT, 1992
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New York ; Oxford, 1989
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New York, 1992, ©1989
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New York u.a, 1989
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May 11, 1992
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[curator]lenscriv@archive.org[/curator][date]20180716185323[/date]
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Includes bibliographies and index.
备用描述
In January 1862, Charles Godwin courted Harriet Russell, ultimately unsuccessfully, with the following "Like cadences of inexpressibly sweet music, your kind words came to causing every nerve to vibrate as though electrified by some far off strain of heavenly harmony." Almost ten years later, Albert Janin, upon receiving a letter from his beloved Violet Blair, responded with, "I kissed your letter over and over again, regardless of the small-pox epidemic at New York, and gave myself up to a carnival of bliss before breaking the envelope." And in October 1883, Dorothea Lummis wrote candidly to her husband Charles, "I like you to want me, dear, and if I were only with you, I would embrace more than the back of your neck, be sure."
In Karen Lystra's richly provocative book, Searching the Heart , we hear the voices of Charles, Albert, Dorothea, and nearly one hundred other nineteenth-century Americans emerge from their surprisingly open, intimate, and emotional love letters. While historians of nineteenth-century America have explored a host of private topics, including courtship, marriage, birth control, sexuality, and sex roles, they have consistently neglected the study of romantic love. Lystra fills this gap by describing in vivid detail what it meant to fall in love in Victorian America.
Based on a vast array of love letters, the book reveals the existence of a real openness--even playfulness--between male and female lovers which challenges and expands more traditional views of middle-class private life in Victorian America. Lystra refutes the common belief that Victorian men and women held passionlessness as an ideal in their romantic relationships. Enabling us to enter the hidden world of Victorian lovers, the letters they left behind offer genuine proof of the intensity of their most private interactions, feelings, behaviors, and judgments. Lystra discusses how Victorians anthropomorphized love letters, treating them as actual visits from their lovers, insisting on reading them in seclusion, sometimes kissing them (as Albert does with Violet's), and even taking them to bed. She also explores how courtship rituals--which included the setting and passing of tests of love--succeeded in building unique, emotional bonds between lovers, and how middle-class views
of romantic love, which encouraged sharing knowledge and intimacy, gave women more power in the home.
Through the medium of love letters, Searching the Heart allows us to enter, unnoticed, the Victorian bedroom and parlor. We will leave with a different view of middle-class Victorian America.
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ix, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- The "pen is the tongue of the absent": reading and writing nineteenth-century love letters -- Falling in love: individualism and the romantic self -- "Lie still and think of the empire": sexuality in Victorian courtship and marriage -- Secrecy, sin and sexual enticement: the integration of public and private life worlds -- Blurring separate spheres: sex-role boundaries and behavior -- Testing romantic love: Victorian courtship rituals and the dramas of private life -- Husbands and wives: duty-bound roles and unaccountable love -- Not for God only: patriarchy, religion, and romantic love
Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, 1990
Legacy 2017
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Introduction -- The Pen Is The Tongue Of The Absent: Reading And Writing Nineteenth-century Love Letters -- Falling In Love: Individualism And The Romantic Self -- Lie Still And Think Of The Empire: Sexuality In Victorian Courtship And Marriage -- Secrecy, Sin And Sexual Enticement: The Integration Of Public And Private Life Worlds -- Blurring Separate Spheres: Sex-role Boundaries And Behavior -- Testing Romantic Love: Victorian Courtship Rituals And The Dramas Of Private Life -- Husbands And Wives: Duty-bound Roles And Unaccountable Love -- Not For God Only: Patriarchy, Religion, And Romantic Love. Karen Lystra. Includes Bibliographies And Index.
备用描述
This is well-argued study of romantic love between men and women in nineteenth-century America. Lystra discusses middle-class ideas of love in terms of their contribution to American individualism, to the secularization of American life, and to women's empowerment in the home through sharing knowledge and intimacy with men
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Conventional ideas of stuffy Victorian middle-class America are challenged by this study, which is based upon the actual love letters of the period.
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2023-06-28
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