{"product_id":"the-heart-in-the-glass-jar-9781496206398","title":"The Heart in the Glass Jar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Heart in the Glass Jar\u003c\/i\u003e 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 lettersas both symbols and material objectsof northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWilliam 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 protected the moral order of families and communities and also perpetuated the gender orderthe foundation of power structures in Mexican society. He then examines reading and writing practices in the communities that the letters came from: mining camps, villages, small towns, and the passionate public sphere that served as the wider social context for the love le\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally well suited to graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Mexican history as well as specialized history and\/or theory courses on love, courtship, gender relations, and the written word.”—Robert M. Buffington, \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Surprising, intriguing, and sophisticated. . . . This is masterful scholarship with an undercurrent of playfulness.”—William H. Beezley, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford History of Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a deeply learned book, the mature work of a widely read, accomplished, and innovative historian.”—Ann S. Blum, author of \u003ci\u003eDomestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeading (Acknowledgments)\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar  \u003cbr\u003eSection 1: The Letter of the Law\u003cbr\u003eSection 2: The Lettered Countryside  \u003cbr\u003eSection 3: The Body of the Letter  \u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409220378967,"sku":"9781496206398","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496206398.jpg?v=1730506006","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-heart-in-the-glass-jar-9781496206398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}