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 civilization from others.
Über den Autor
nAlexander C.T. Geppert is Emmy Noether Research Group Director at Freie Universität Berlin. He has held various long-term fellowships in Berkeley, Paris, London, Vienna, Essen and at Harvard University. His publications include numerous articles, five edited volumes as well as Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-siècle Europe (2010), and Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (editor, 2010).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
nAcknowledgments
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nIntroduction
nLuisa Passerini
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nPART I: HISTORICIZING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/ POINTS OF REFERENCE
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nChapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative Comments
nJack Goody
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nChapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective
nWilliam M. Reddy
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nChapter 3. Love of State - Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts
nAlf Lüdtke
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nChapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy
nLiliana Ellena
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nChapter 5. 'Window to Europe': Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject
nAlmira Ousmanova
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nPART II: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES
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nChapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café Ziemianska
nMarci Shore
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nChapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII
nAlexis Schwarzenbach
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nChapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi Germany
nAlexander C.T. Geppert
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nChapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation. The 'Revista de Occidente' and the Creation of a Culture, 1923-1936
nAlison Sinclair
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nChapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s
nJo Labanyi
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nPART III: EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS
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nChapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism Margarida
nCalafate Ribeiro
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nChapter 12. The 'Volkskörper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic
nSandra Mass
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nChapter 13. Anica Savic Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War
nSvetlana SlapSak
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nChapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam
nRuth Mas
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nNotes on Contributors
nIndex
Klappentext
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 includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities.
