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Europe in Love, Love in Europe

Imagination and Politics between the Wars

ISBN-13: 9780814766989
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Luisa Passerini
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Local release date: 01/03/1999
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 300 pages Weight: 771g
Categories: British & Irish history [HBJD1]Europe [1D]

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Google Preview: Before World War II an intimate connection between the ideas of Europe and romantic love was widely accepted and virtually unchallenged. Only after Europe was ravaged by war and fractured by superpower conflict was this connection called into question. Today, with the success of the European Union, such themes are reemerging in art, literature, music, and everyday conversation. In Europe in Love, Love in Europe we revisit Europe between world wars to explore the lost connections between love, culture, and ideology. Passerini investigates different ways in which historians, politicians, psychoanalysts, and psychologists analyzed the crisis of European civilization, providing a history of ideas and emotions. Her focus on specific texts ranges from best-selling novels to artworks set in the context of debates on marriage, sex, and friendship. Europe in Love, Love in Europe concludes with the story of a correspondence between spouses, an English woman and a German man during World War II, a powerful example of what it could mean to live the European dimension of a love relationship in that historical moment. Passerini offers a compelling original perspective on the modern anxiety over national identity and European unity-and a powerful rejoinder to political and cultural Eurocentrism.; Luisa Passerini is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her books include Fascism in Popular Memory, Memory and Totalitarianism, and Autobiography of a Generation.; "An ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s."-"GC Advocate", "In this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, "Manning the Race" is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation."-Valerie Smith, Princeton University "This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life."-"CHOICE",; Google Preview content

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