Modern Love : : Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis / / David Shumway.
“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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A Brief History of Love
- I Romance
- 1 Romance in the Romance and the Novel
- 2 Romancing Marriage: Advice Books and the Crisis
- 3 Marriage as Adultery: Hollywood Romance and the Screwball Comedy
- 4 Power Struggles: Casablanca and Gone with the Wind
- II Intimacy
- 5 Talking Cures: The Discourse of Intimacy
- 6 Relationship Stories
- 7 Marriage Fiction
- Conclusion: Other Media, Other Discourses: The Crisis Continues
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author