Free Content Finding A Mate In Late Tsarist Russia: The Evidence From Marriage Advertisements

Author: Lovell, Stephen1

Source: Cultural and Social History, Volume 4, Number 1, January 2007 , pp. 51-72(22)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

This article examines a hitherto unstudied source - the marriage newspapers of late tsarist Russia - for the light it can shed on two important but elusive subjects for historical inquiry. First, the history of marriage in an era of astonishingly rapid social and economic change. Second, the history of social identities. It is argued that the small and apparently trivial texts of marriage advertisements offer a rare opportunity to see the language of social description in cultural practice - to discover, in other words, how the various labels of class, estate, occupation and status acquired meaning in people's everyday lives and discourse.

Keywords: RUSSIA; MARRIAGE; NEWSPAPERS; ADVERTISING; GENDER

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: King's College London

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