Hearts and Minds
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- ISBN 9781552385203
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2011
- Publisher: University of Calgary Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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, Montreal's 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.