Objects of Affection? Materialising Courtship, Love and Sex in Ireland, c. 1800-1830.

Leanne Calvert

doi:10.1080/14780038.2022.2065720

Objects of Affection? Materialising Courtship, Love and Sex in Ireland, c. 1800-1830.

Leanne Calvert

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This article uses a collection of mementos curated by Robert James Tennent, a middle-class man, to interrogate how objects materialised love and sex in Ireland. It problematises readings of courtship tokens as simple objects of affection, and considers how individuals engaged in culturally-sanctioned courtship practices in extra-licit ways. Gifts and tokens took on new meanings when they were accessioned into the personal archives of their owners and catalogued as mementos of past relationships. Read as a collection of courtship mementos and a homemade pornographic archive, this article argues that the collection provides an unique insight into the curation of sexual memory.

Original language	English
Number of pages	18
Journal	Cultural and Social History
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2065720
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2022

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Courtship
Ireland
emotion
love
material culture
sex

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