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New Dangerous Liaisons : Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century.
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...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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| Colección: | Making sense of history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.