Heart in the Glass Jar : Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
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Heart in the Glass Jar : Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
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The work Heart in the Glass Jar : Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Heart in the Glass Jar : Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
- Title remainder
- Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
- Subject
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- 1800-1999
- Courtship
- Courtship -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- Courtship -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Letter writing
- Letter writing -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- Letter writing -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
- Love-letters
- Love-letters -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- Love-letters -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
- Mexico
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters-as both symbols and material objects-of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William E. French's innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy studies and explores how love letters functioned culturally and legally. French begins by situating love letters in the context of the legal system, which
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- EBLCP
- Dewey number
- 306.7340972
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ7211 .F74 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- The Mexican Experience
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