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- catalog abstract "In this lively, interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early nineteenth-century France, art historian Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time--adultery. In a period when expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives, and lovers became a major theme in theater, literature, and the visual arts. The author demonstrates that this intense interest was historically grounded in the post-Revolutionary collision between the new concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives of family and state. The book examines the questions that permeated French culture and society: Is duty or happiness more important? Are arranged marriages doomed to be empty of love and poisoned by adultery? Should adulterous wives and their lovers be punished while husbands may commit adultery with impunity? Out of such legal, social, and cultural debates ultimately emerged modern bourgeois family values, Mainardi argues. And she illuminates how art, in all its varieties, both influences and is influenced by social change.".
- catalog contributor b13025181.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "In this lively, interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early nineteenth-century France, art historian Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time--adultery. In a period when expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives, and lovers became a major theme in theater, literature, and the visual arts. The author demonstrates that this intense interest was historically grounded in the post-Revolutionary collision between the new concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives of family and state. The book examines the questions that permeated French culture and society: Is duty or happiness more important? Are arranged marriages doomed to be empty of love and poisoned by adultery? Should adulterous wives and their lovers be punished while husbands may commit adultery with impunity? Out of such legal, social, and cultural debates ultimately emerged modern bourgeois family values, Mainardi argues. And she illuminates how art, in all its varieties, both influences and is influenced by social change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-296) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: to laugh or to weep -- Unhappy families: courtroom dramas -- The art of keeping wives faithful: (mis)conduct manuals -- When seeing is believing: the graphic image -- For money or for love: theatrical alternatives -- Happily ever after ... or not: novels and their readers -- Many ways to ride a horse: Mazeppa -- The marriage of contradiction: some conclusions.".
- catalog extent "xii, 310 p. :".
- catalog identifier "030010104X".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "700/.4543/094409034 21".
- catalog subject "Arts, French 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Divorce France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Families in art.".
- catalog subject "Family in art.".
- catalog subject "Marriage France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Marriage in art.".
- catalog subject "NX650.M29 M35 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: to laugh or to weep -- Unhappy families: courtroom dramas -- The art of keeping wives faithful: (mis)conduct manuals -- When seeing is believing: the graphic image -- For money or for love: theatrical alternatives -- Happily ever after ... or not: novels and their readers -- Many ways to ride a horse: Mazeppa -- The marriage of contradiction: some conclusions.".
- catalog title "Husbands, wives, and lovers : marriage and its discontents in nineteenth-century France / Patricia Mainardi.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".