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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
©2010

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Making sense of history ; v. 13
Making sense of history ; v. 13.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-300) and index.
Contents 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 Lüdtke -- 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 VIII / 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, 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.
Summary Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the 20th century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal.
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Subject Love -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Love.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Civilization.
National characteristics, European.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
National characteristics, European.
Family and Relationships.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Passerini, Luisa, editor.
Ellena, Liliana, editor.
Geppert, Alexander C. T., 1970- editor.
Other Form: Print version: New dangerous liaisons. 1st ed. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845457365 (DLC) 2010013225 (OCoLC)555673097
ISBN 9781845459765 (electronic book)
1845459768 (electronic book)
9781845457365
1845457366