Love and the novel : life after reading / Christina Lupton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lupton, Christina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lupton, Christina--Relations with women.

Lupton, Christina.

Love in literature.

Love.

Relations with women.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Profile Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Romantic love was born alongside the novel, and books have been shaping how we experience and think about our most intimate stories ever since. But what do novels give us when our own lives diverge from the usual narrative paths? Christina is a professor used to examining stories with a critical eye; until one day in middle age she finds herself falling in love and leaving her marriage for a romance with another woman. This involves a familiar enough tale, but when her new partner suffers a stroke, Tina begins to reflect on the sorts of love that novels rarely capture. A heady mix of memoir, criticism and storytelling that draws on novels ranging from 'Pride and Prejudice' to 'Price of Salt', 'Anna Karenina' to 'Conversations with Friends', to illuminate the ways love and novels work, and show how some types of love, which don't race to a narrative end-point, might be the most important of all."--taken from publisher web site.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The originality of love

Chapter 2. The romance of youth

Chapter 3. Marriage and its limits

Chapter 4. Ordinary adultery

Chapter 5. The climax

Chapter 6. One-way love

Chapter 7. Love of the child

Chapter 8. Circles of friends

Chapter 9. Love of the teacher

Epilogue : On endings

Acknowledgements

Reading list

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247).

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781788166478

1788166477

OCLC:

1314362850