dc.contributor.author	Azoulay, Dan	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-04T20:44:09Z	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-04T21:30:32Z
dc.date.available	2011-10-04T20:44:09Z	eng
dc.date.available	2011-10-04T21:30:32Z
dc.date.issued	2011	eng
dc.description.abstract	What was romance like for Canadians a century ago? What qualities did marriageable men and women look for in prospective mates? How did they find suitable partners in difficult circumstances such as frontier isolation and parental disapproval, and, when they did, how did courtship proceed in the immediate post-Victorian era, when traditional romantic ideals and etiquette were colliding with the modern realities faced by ordinary people? Searching for answers, Dan Azoulay has turned to a variety of primary sources, in particular letters to the "correspondence columns" of two leading periodicals of the era, Montreals Family Herald and Weekly Star, and Winnipeg's Western Home Monthly. Examining over 20,000 such letters, Azoulay has produced the first full-length study of Canadian romance in the years 1900 to 1930, a period that witnessed dramatic changes, including massive immigration, rapid urbanization and industrialization, western settlement, a world war that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of young Canadians, and a virtual revolution in morals and manners. Hearts and Minds explores four key aspects of romance for these years: what average Canadians sought in a marriage partner; the specific rules they were expected to follow and in most cases did follow in their romantic quest; the many hardships they endured along the way; and how the defining event of that era - the Great War - affected such things. To explore these issues, Azoulay distils and analyzes evidence not only from letters of correspondents - featuring often poignant excerpts that bring the era to life for us - but also from contemporary general etiquette manuals, scholarly studies of courtship in this period, and, for the war years, a selection of soldiers letters, memoirs, and diaries. The result is an unforgettable and groundbreaking portrait of ordinary people grappling with romantic ideals and reality, trials and uncertainty, triumph and heartbreak, in a rapidly changing world.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Azoulay, Dan. "Hearts and minds: Canadian romance at the dawn of the modern era, 1900-1930". University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34582
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-521-0	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48751	eng
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Courtship—Canada—History—20th century	eng
dc.subject	Mate selection—Canada—History—20th century	eng
dc.subject	Man-woman relationships—Canada—History—20th century	eng
dc.subject	World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects—Canada	eng
dc.subject	Canada—Social life and customs—20th century	eng
dc.title	Hearts and minds: Canadian romance at the dawn of the modern era, 1900-1930	eng
dc.type	book

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