Description: New Dangerous Liaisons by Luisa Passerini, Liliana Ellena, Alexander C.T. Geppert 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York. She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007). Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLuisa PasseriniPART I: HISTORICIZING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/ POINTS OF REFERENCE Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative CommentsJack GoodyChapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative PerspectiveWilliam M. ReddyChapter 3. Love of State – Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European ContextsAlf LÜdtkeChapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar ItalyLiliana EllenaChapter 5. Window to Europe: Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet SubjectAlmira OusmanovaPART II: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES Chapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café ZiemiaskaMarci ShoreChapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIIIAlexis SchwarzenbachChapter 8. Dear Adolf!: Locating Love in Nazi GermanyAlexander C.T. GeppertChapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation. The Revista de Occidente and the Creation of a Culture, 1923-1936Alison SinclairChapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940sJo LabanyiPART III: EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism MargaridaCalafate RibeiroChapter 12. The Volkskörper in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar RepublicSandra MassChapter 13. Anica Savi Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of WarSvetlana SlapšakChapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with IslamRuth MasNotes on ContributorsIndex Review "This is a wonderful collection of richly textured, suggestive, and often meticulous essays that interrogate the inter-twined histories of love and European identity. Imaginative readings of diverse archives that go deep into Europes pasts and extend sideways to her colonies and margins will make this volume indispensable to all contemporary debates on the meanings of Europe. It will also speak to readers far beyond the geographical confines of the continent." · Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and SouthAsian Studies Review Quote "This is a wonderful collection of richly textured, suggestive, and often meticulous essays that interrogate the inter-twined histories of love and European identity. Imaginative readings of diverse archives that go deep into Europes pasts and extend sideways to her colonies and margins will make this volume indispensable to all contemporary debates on the meanings of Europe. It will also speak to readers far beyond the geographical confines of the continent." Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies Details ISBN1845457366 Publisher Berghahn Books ISBN-10 1845457366 ISBN-13 9781845457365 Year 2010 Format Hardcover Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert DEWEY 940.5 Illustrations black & white illustrations Language English Media Book Short Title NEW DANGEROUS LIAISONS Series Number 13 Pages 332 Publication Date 2010-10-01 UK Release Date 2010-10-01 AU Release Date 2010-10-01 NZ Release Date 2010-10-01 Author Alexander C.T. Geppert Series Making Sense of History Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:40822088;
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Publication Name: New Dangerous Liaisons: Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century
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