Bibliograph

Love, a history in five fantasies, Barbara H. Rosenwein

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Label

Love, a history in five fantasies, Barbara H. Rosenwein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Love

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Barbara H. Rosenwein

Sub title

a history in five fantasies

Summary

We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments.Drawing on poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs, and art, and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love: like-minded union, transcendent rapture, selfless giving, obsessive longing, and insatiable desire. Each has had a long and tangled history with lasting effects on how we in the West think about love today. Yet each leads to a different conclusion about what we should strive for in our relationships

Table Of Contents

Like-mindedness -- Transcendence -- Obligation -- Obsession -- Insatiability

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