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4 pages in length. Lystra's "Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America" draws its influence from a long-standing misinterpretation of Victorian love and relationships as being covert and void of romantic undertones. The chronological scope of the nineteenth century provides for a more focused major emphasis upon the social aspects inherent to the romantic love Lystra found to be significantly more evident than what has long been understood of this era. Through the discovery of copious love letters, Lystra projects an overwhelming sense of devotion, affection and tenderness between couples who were not intimidated by social dictate to display their romantic love. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The chronological scope of the nineteenth century provides for a major emphasis upon the social aspects inherent to the romantic love Lystra (1996) found to be significantly more evident
than what has long been understood of this era. Through the discovery of copious love letters, the author projects an overwhelming sense of devotion, affection and tenderness between couples
who were not intimidated by social dictate to display their romantic love. Here is where the student will expound upon any aspects that are totally ignored. "Victorian lovers
occasionally reveled in eloquent nonsense and felt as unsteady as a balloon in the wind, but the emotions of love were more substantial than moonshine and writing love letters was
more serious introspection than light-hearted frivolity" (Lystra, 1996, p. 3). The authors adeptness at and sensitivity toward handling the notion of romantic love amidst a nineteenth century society seemingly
caught up in its own prudishness speaks to her desire to dispel the erroneous contention of Victorian love being both hidden and unsuitable for open acknowledgement. Clearly, the obvious
undercurrent of openness and acceptability displayed by the love letters illustrates the extent to which romantic love was, indeed, both accepted and encouraged in what was historically thought of as
a straitlaced society. Lystra (1996) - assistant professor at California State University - considered the time to be right for the world to wipe clean a slate that made nineteenth
century couples appear to be chaste and platonic, when in fact there were quite the opposite. Appropriate for secondary, undergraduate and graduate audiences, Searching the Heart reflects Lystras (1996)
values of appreciation toward romantic love as being pure and without bias; rather, the author simply seeks to present a variation of the truth that has for so long been
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