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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2010
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.7094/0904; 306.70940904
• Soggetto topico: Love - Europe - History - 20th century; National characteristics, European
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Civilization 20th century
• Altri autori: EllenaLiliana GeppertAlexander C. T. <1970-> PasseriniLuisa
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: New dangerous liaisons
• ISBN: 1-84545-976-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781674503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Making sense of history ; ; v. 13.