Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder : The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Mads.

Series:

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Western countries--History.

Love.

Sex customs--Cross-cultural studies.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

After a 6-million-year journey through hominin mating regimes--with varying promiscuity, polygyny, and monogamy--this book investigates the past millennium's radical evolution of Western mating beliefs. Soon, the Fourth Sexual Revolution will transform our mating through A.I. and other technologies.

Contents:

Exiting heroic love: Monogamous indoctrination in the Icelandic Sagas (1200s)

Promoting courtly love: Female consent and modern morality in Tristrams saga (1226)

Companionate love & the nuptial valve: Urban Incels in the unfaithful wife (c. 1500)

Promoting romantic love: Individual choice in holberg's comedies (1722-1754)

The libertine love experiment: Sex as intoxication in Bellman's epistles (1770-1790)

Perils of romantic love: Dark triad seducers in the magic goblet (1841)

Exploring confluent love: Darwinian mating in the modern breakthrough (1871-1888)

Consequences of confluent love: Self-realization in the serious game (1912-2016)

Lesbian heroic love: A queer dissolution of confluent love in Baby Jane (2005)

Incels & insings: Marginalized men and women in Sigurd and half of Malmö (2020s).

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-015715-7

1-003-49923-6

9781003499237

OCLC:

1438920244