New Dangerous Liaisons

Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-736-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Passerini, Luisa

Ellena, Liliana

Geppert, Alexander C. T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Luisa Passerini

PART I: HISTORICIZING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/ POINTS OF REFERENCE

Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative Comments

Jack Goody

Chapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective

William M. Reddy

Chapter 3. Love of State – Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts

Alf Lüdtke

Chapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy

Liliana Ellena

Chapter 5. 'Window to Europe': Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject

Almira Ousmanova

PART II: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES

Chapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café Ziemianska

Marci Shore

Chapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII

Alexis Schwarzenbach

Chapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi Germany

Alexander C.T. Geppert

Chapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation. The 'Revista de Occidente' and the Creation of a Culture, 1923-1936

Alison Sinclair

Chapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s

Jo Labanyi

PART III: EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS

Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism Margarida

Calafate Ribeiro

Chapter 12. The 'Volkskörper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic

Sandra Mass

Chapter 13. Anica Savic Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War

Svetlana Slapšak

Chapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam

Ruth Mas

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geppert, Alexander C. T.
Alexander 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).

Ellena, Liliana
Liliana Ellena is a historian working at the University of Turin, Italy. She has edited the new Italian edition of Frantz Fanon's I dannati della terra (2000), is the coauthor of Il Quarto Stato. La fortuna di un'immagine tra cultura e politica (2002), and has recently co-edited a special issue of Zapruder (2007) on transnational women’s movements.

Passerini, Luisa
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).

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).