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Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America

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Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America - Lystra, Karen
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A vivid exploration of Victorian romantic love that challenges the conventional wisdom about many aspects of 19th-century American private life, this richly provocative book allows us to hear the voices of nearly one hundred 19th-century Americans as they emerge from their surprisingly open, intimate, and emotional love letters. 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 ...

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Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America 1992, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195074765

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Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America 1989, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195058178

Hardcover