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

Calvert, Leanne (2022) Objects of Affection? Materialising Courtship, Love and Sex in Ireland, c. 1800-1830. Cultural and Social History, 19 (3). pp. 247-263. ISSN 1478-0038
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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.
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Identification Number 10.1080/14780038.2022.2065720
Additional information © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords courtship, ireland, emotion, love, material culture, sex, cultural studies, history, sociology and political science
Date Deposited 15 May 2025 14:45
Last Modified 04 Feb 2026 00:12

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