ISBN:
9781845457365
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (333 p)
Series Statement:
Making Sense of History
Parallel Title:
Print version New Dangerous Liaisons : Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century
DDC:
306.7094/0904
Keywords:
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Abstract:
In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that i
Description / Table of Contents:
New Dangerous Liaisons; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Historicising Love: Points de Repère/Points of Reference; Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative Comments; Chapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 3. Love of State - Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts; Chapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy; Chapter 5. 'Window to Europe': The Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II. Public and Private LovesChapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café Ziemianska; Chapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII; Chapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi Germany; Chapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation in the Revista de Occidente 1926-1936; Chapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s; Part III. European Borders and Cultural Differences in Love Relations
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of LusotropicalismChapter 12. The 'Volkskorper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic; Chapter 13. Anica Savic Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War; Chapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
New Dangerous Liaisons; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Historicising Love: Points de Repère/Points of Reference; Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative Comments; Chapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 3. Love of State - Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts; Chapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy; Chapter 5. 'Window to Europe': The Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II. Public and Private LovesChapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café Ziemianska; Chapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII; Chapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi Germany; Chapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation in the Revista de Occidente 1926-1936; Chapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s; Part III. European Borders and Cultural Differences in Love Relations
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of LusotropicalismChapter 12. The 'Volkskorper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic; Chapter 13. Anica Savic Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War; Chapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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