Love and romance in Britain, 1918-1970. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alana Harris, Timothy Willem Jones ; contributors, Stephen Brooke [and ten others].
• Editors: Harris, Alana, 1973-; Jones, Timothy Willem, 1981-
• Other Names: Brooke, Stephen contributor.
• Contents: Introduction: Historicizing 'Modern' Love and Romance -- Timothy Willem Jones and Alana Harris PART I: IDENTITIES AND THE SPACES OF THEIR ARTICULATION 1. Love and Romance in British Women's Autobiography -- Barbara Caine 2. The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain -- Laura King 3. Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- Helen Smith 4. 'A Certain Amount of Mush': Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century' -- Stephen Brooke PART II: LOVE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE: GENERATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF MARRIAGE, SEX AND SOLE PARENTHOOD 5. Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s -- April Gallwey 6. Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain -- Timothy Willem Jones 7. Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain -- Charlotte Greenhalgh PART III: LOVE AND THE 'EXPERTS': SCIENCE, MORALITY AND THE STATE 8. 'The Love of a Pitiable Dog': Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth Century British Psychology -- Gillian Swanson 9. Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State -- Alana Harris 10. Nova 1965-1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, But Not As We Know It -- Hera Cook Afterword -- Claire Langhamer Index List of Figures.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, England New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (273 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 305.30941; Sex -- Great Britain -- History; Courtship -- Great Britain -- History; Love -- Great Britain -- History; Man-woman relationships -- Great Britain -- History; Interpersonal relations -- Great Britain -- History; Courtship; Interpersonal relations; Love; Man-woman relationships; Sex; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137328625; 1137328622; 9781137328632; 1137328630
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.