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Listen: “Romantic love and the history of emotions” by William Reddy, on ABC Radio National Big Ideas2013 (first 24 min.) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/romantic-love-and-the-history-of-emotions/4661102

1.   Why does Reddy argue that romantic love is not universal?

2.   How does he use neuroscience to back up his points?

Vicki Howard, “The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood”, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 100, 1 (Jul., 1996), 64-80. (J-Stor). 

3.   How was Calvin Rhone and Lucia Knott’s courtship different from those of white rural Americans at the same time?

4.   Can we consider this one “emotional style” in a larger “emotional community”?

5.   How many letters in the collection, and who wrote them? What does this tell us about who kept them? Do you think this was commonly the case?

6.   What do they talk about? What do they NOT talk about?

7.   What image of love is presented in these letters?

Please answer the following questions in 3- 4 sentences:

\Have you ever received a love letter? If so, did you keep it? What would it tell historians about love in the twentieth-century? If not, what would you write in a love letter, and why?