Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.

The editors, Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones, are to be credited for isolating the critical themes and findings of their contributors in an excellent, wide-ranging and accessible introduction, which expertly and thoughtfully scrutinises the intersections between changing configurations of romantic love and the histories of both emotions and gender in modern Britain. (Martin Francis, English Historical Review, Vol. 131 (552), October, 2016)

Autorentext
Stephen Brooke, York University, Toronto, USA Barbara Caine, University of Sydney, Australia Hera Cook, University of Sussex, UK April Gallwey, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK Charlotte Greenhalgh, Monash University, Australia Laura King, University of Leeds, UK Claire Langhamer, University of Sussex, UK Helen Smith, University of Sheffield, UK Gillian Swanson, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Historicizing 'Modern' Love and Romance; Timothy Willem Jones and Alana Harris PART I: IDENTITIES AND THE SPACES OF THEIR ARTICULATION 1. Love and Romance in British Women's Autobiography; Barbara Caine 2. The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; Laura King 3. Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Helen Smith 4. 'A Certain Amount of Mush': Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century'; Stephen Brooke PART II: LOVE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE: GENERATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF MARRIAGE, SEX AND SOLE PARENTHOOD 5. Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s; April Gallwey 6. Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain; Timothy Willem Jones 7. Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; Charlotte Greenhalgh PART III: LOVE AND THE 'EXPERTS': SCIENCE, MORALITY AND THE STATE 8. 'The Love of a Pitiable Dog': Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth Century British Psychology; Gillian Swanson 9. Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State; Alana Harris 10. Nova 1965-1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, But Not As We Know It; Hera Cook Afterword; Claire Langhamer Index List of Figures