{"product_id":"love-and-the-idea-of-europe-european-identities-in-the-twentieth-century-9-remapping-cultural-history-9-9780857451767","title":"Love and the Idea of Europe European Identities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…\u003cem\u003ea 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\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCanadian Journal of History\/Annales canadiennes d’histoire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e  ·  John Foot\u003c\/b\u003e, University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: MALE PORTRAITS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe’: Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation’: Leo Ferrero, a Young European\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: EUROPE'S ROOTS IN LOVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Mediterranean Love\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World by Denis de Rougemont\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: CONNECTING JEWISHNESS, EUROPEANNESS AND LOVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Between Two Worlds’: Ansky’s Dybbuk in France and Italy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Notre Mère l’Europe’: Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tPrimary Sources and Archives\u003cbr\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038904779095,"sku":"9780857451767","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451767.jpg?v=1750941879","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-and-the-idea-of-europe-european-identities-in-the-twentieth-century-9-remapping-cultural-history-9-9780857451767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}