New Dangerous Liaisons: Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century

Published by Berghahn Books 2010

New Dangerous Liaisons

Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century

Edited by: Luisa Passerini , Liliana Ellena and Alexander C.T. Geppert

Volume 13 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459765

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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 / Editor information

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).

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.

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).

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).

Reviews

"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 Europe's 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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Luisa Passerini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I HISTORICISING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/POINTS OF REFERENCE
CHAPTER 1 Love and Religion: Comparative Comments Jack Goody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2 The Rule of Love The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective William M. Reddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
CHAPTER 3 Love of State – Affection for Authority Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts Alf Lüdtke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTER 4 Overseas Europeans Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy Liliana Ellena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER 5 ‘Window to Europe’ The Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject Almira Ousmanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part II PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES
CHAPTER 6 Love in the Time of Revolution The Polish Poets of Café Ziemiańska Marci Shore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 7 Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII Alexis Schwarzenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER 8 ‘Dear Adolf!’ Locating Love in Nazi Germany Alexander C.T. Geppert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
CHAPTER 9 Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation in the Revista de Occidente 1926–1936 Alison Sinclair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
CHAPTER 10 Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s Jo Labanyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CHAPTER 12 The ‘Volkskörper’ in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic Sandra Mass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER 13 Anica Savić Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War Svetlana Slapšak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
CHAPTER 14 Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam Ruth Mas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 332
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Cultural Studies (General); Literary Studies

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Published: October 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781845459765