Author: Edward JenksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Short History of English Law from the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1927
Author: Edward JenksThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Broken Engagements
Author: Saskia LettmaierPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199569975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The common law action for breach of promise of marriage originated in the mid-seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it rose to prominence and became a regular feature in law courts and gossip columns. By 1940 the action was defunct, it was inconceivable for a respectable woman to bring such a case before the courts. What accounts for this dramatic rise and fall? This book ties the story of the action's prominence and decline between 1800 and 1940 to changes in the prevalent conception of woman, her ideal role in society, sexual relations, and the family. It argues that the idiosyncratic breach-of-promise suit and Victorian notions of ideal femininity were inextricably, and fatally, entwined. It presents the nineteenth-century breach-of-promise action as a codification of the Victorian ideal of true womanhood and explores the longer-term implications of this infusion of mythologized femininity for the law, in particular for the position of plaintiffs. Surveying three consecutive time periods - the early nineteenth century, the high Victorian and the post-Victorian periods - and adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of legal history, social history, and literary analysis, it argues that the feminizing process, by shaping a cause of action in accordance with an ideal at odds with the very notion of women going to law, imported a fatal structural inconsistency that at first remained obscured, but ultimately vulgarized and undid the cause of action. Alongside more than two hundred and fifty real-life breach-of-promise cases, the book examines literary and cinematic renditions of the breach-of-promise theme, by artists ranging from Charles Dickens to P.G. Wodehouse, to expose the subtle yet unmistakable ways in which what happened (and what changed) in the breach-of-promise courtroom influenced the changing representation of the breach-of-promise plaintiff in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and film.
Student's Guide to Materials in Political Science
Author: Laverne BurchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Anglo-American Law Collections
Author: Mortimer D. SchwartzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Main Currents in English History
Author: Frank Joseph KlingbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Law Books, 1876-1981
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
Courses of Study
Author: John Mackinnon RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description