Modern love : romance, intimacy, and the marriage crisis / David R. Shumway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shumway, David R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage.

Marriage in popular culture.

Marriage in literature.

Marriage in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"My ideas of romance came from the movies," said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies-as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books-that David Shumway turns for his history of modern love. Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. Over the course of the twentieth century, partly in response to this crisis, a new language of love-"intimacy"-emerged, not so much replacing bu

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction:A Brief History of Love; part I Romance; Romance in the Romance and the Novel; Romancing Marriage; Marriage as Adultery; Power Struggles; part ii Intimacy; Talking Cures; Relationship Stories; Marriage Fiction; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-8353-8

1-4175-8836-5

OCLC:

780425942