Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I HISTORICISING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/POINTS OF REFERENCE
7. CHAPTER 1 Love and Religion: Comparative Comments 21
8. CHAPTER 2 The Rule of Love The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative Perspective 33
9. CHAPTER 3 Love of State – Affection for Authority Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European Contexts 58
10. CHAPTER 4 Overseas Europeans Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar Italy 75
11. CHAPTER 5 ‘Window to Europe’ The Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet Subject 95
12. Part II PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES
13. CHAPTER 6 Love in the Time of Revolution The Polish Poets of Café Ziemiańska 117
14. CHAPTER 7 Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIII 137
15. CHAPTER 8 ‘Dear Adolf!’ Locating Love in Nazi Germany 158
16. CHAPTER 9 Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation in the Revista de Occidente 1926–1936 178
17. CHAPTER 10 Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940s 197
18. Part III EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS
19. CHAPTER 11 Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism 215
20. CHAPTER 12 The ‘Volkskörper’ in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic 233
21. CHAPTER 13 Anica Savić Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of War 251
22. CHAPTER 14 Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with Islam 269
23. Contributors 289
24. Select Bibliography 294
25. Index 301