Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.
Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.
Karen Lystra is Professor of American Studies Emerita at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years and Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Distinguished Faculty Award, and Outstanding Honors Professor of the Year. She is a former president of the Western Association of Women Historians.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Chapter 1: "Please Excuse All Mistakes": Letter-Writing, Shame, and Social Connection * Chapter 2: Working-Class Americans Choose a Mate: Nonromantic Courtship and Tribal Intimacy * Chapter 3: The Love Continuum: Understanding Romantic and Nonromantic Attachment * Chapter 4: Sex Talk, Humor, and Fear of Ridicule: Desire and Self-Protection * Chapter 5: Love to All Inquiring Friends: Sustaining Communal Ties in Nonromantic Marriage * Chapter 6: Fighting to Stay Together: Unhappy Spouses and Their Struggles * Chapter 7: Roses Are Red/ Violets are Blue: Emotional History in Rhyme * Chapter 8: Imagining the Eternal Village: Death, Longing, and Loss * Epilogue * Appendix A: Writing, Education, and Literacy * Appendix B: Literacy and Oral Culture * * Notes * Index
* Introduction * Chapter 1: "Please Excuse All Mistakes": Letter-Writing, Shame, and Social Connection * Chapter 2: Working-Class Americans Choose a Mate: Nonromantic Courtship and Tribal Intimacy * Chapter 3: The Love Continuum: Understanding Romantic and Nonromantic Attachment * Chapter 4: Sex Talk, Humor, and Fear of Ridicule: Desire and Self-Protection * Chapter 5: Love to All Inquiring Friends: Sustaining Communal Ties in Nonromantic Marriage * Chapter 6: Fighting to Stay Together: Unhappy Spouses and Their Struggles * Chapter 7: Roses Are Red/ Violets are Blue: Emotional History in Rhyme * Chapter 8: Imagining the Eternal Village: Death, Longing, and Loss * Epilogue * Appendix A: Writing, Education, and Literacy * Appendix B: Literacy and Oral Culture * * Notes * Index
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