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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808326103321

Titolo

New dangerous liaisons : discourses on Europe and love in the twentieth century / / edited by Luisa Passerini, Liliana Ellena, and Alexander C.T. Geppert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2010

ISBN

1-84545-976-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Making sense of history ; ; volume 13

Altri autori (Persone)

EllenaLiliana

GeppertAlexander C. T. <1970->

PasseriniLuisa

Disciplina

306.7094/0904

306.70940904

Soggetti

Love - Europe - History - 20th century

National characteristics, European

Europe Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Love and religion : comparative comments / Jack Goody -- The rule of love : the history of western romantic love in comparative perspective / William M. Reddy --  Love of state; affection for authority : politics of mass participation in twentieth century European Contexts / Alf Ludtke -- Overseas Europeans : whiteness and the impossible colonial romance in interwar Italy / Liliana Ellena  -- 'Window to Europe' : the social and cinematic phantasms of the post-Soviet subject / Almira Ousmanova -- Love in the time of revolution : the Polish poets of Café Ziemiańska / Marci Shore -- Love, marriage, and divorce : American and European reactions to the abdication of Edward / Alexis Schwarzenbach -- 'Dear Adolf! ' : locating love in Nazi Germany / Alexander C.T. Geppert -- Love, again : crisis and the search for consolation : the 'Revista de Occidente' and the creation of a culture, 1923-1936 / Alison Sinclair --  Political readings of Don Juan and romantic love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s / Jo Labanyi -- Between Europe and the Atlantic  : the melancholy paths of Lusotropicalism / Margarida Calafate Ribeiro -- The 'Volkskörper' in



fear : gender, race, and sexuality in the Weimar Republic / Sandra Mass -- Anica Savić Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein : love in the time of war / Svetlana Slapák -- Secular couplings : an intergenerational affair with Islam / Ruth Mas.

Sommario/riassunto

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