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Book SynopsisIt has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s...
Trade Review “…a rich, highly original, and innovative piece of work which curiously achieves a new way of understanding and analyzing trends in European history… Passerini has produced a book which will be of interest to a wide range of historians interested in culture, literature, society, and gender as well as in the history of emotions.” · Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire
"The stories [as told by the author] are extremely interesting and illuminating, covering a quite extraordinary range of material (the scholarly work here alone is quite outstanding) from opera to publishing history to letters to film and fiction as well as archives… There are lots of interesting reflections on, for example, Orientalism and Islam, as well as politics, which provide food for thought in today's world…The volume is very well written and extremely clear, and the footnotes are often as important as the main text." · John Foot, University College London
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions
PART I: MALE PORTRAITS
Chapter 1. ‘Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe’: Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism
Chapter 2. ‘Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation’: Leo Ferrero, a Young European
PART II: EUROPE'S ROOTS IN LOVE
Chapter 3. Mediterranean Love
Chapter 4. The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont
PART III: CONNECTING JEWISHNESS, EUROPEANNESS AND LOVE
Chapter 5. ‘Between Two Worlds’: Ansky’s Dybbuk in France and Italy
Chapter 6. ‘Notre Mère l’Europe’: Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian
Primary Sources and Archives
References
Index
