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Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970

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Editors:
  1. Alana Harris

    1. Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Timothy Willem Jones

    1. La Trobe University, Australia
      University of South Wales, UK

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and Romance

    • Timothy Willem Jones, Alana Harris
    Pages 1-19

  3. Love and Romance in Interwar British Women’s Autobiography

    • Barbara Caine
    Pages 20-40

  4. The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Laura King
    Pages 41-60

  5. Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    • Helen Smith
    Pages 61-80

  6. ‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century

    • Stephen Brooke
    Pages 81-99

  7. Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s

    • April Gallwey
    Pages 100-123

  8. Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain

    • Timothy Willem Jones
    Pages 124-143

  9. Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Charlotte Greenhalgh
    Pages 144-160

  10. ‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology

    • Gillian Swanson
    Pages 161-187

  11. Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State

    • Alana Harris
    Pages 188-224

  12. Nova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It

    • Hera Cook
    Pages 225-244

  13. Afterword

    • Claire Langhamer
    Pages 245-253

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-260
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About this book

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.

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“The editors, Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones, are to be credited for isolating the critical themes and findings of their contributors in an excellent, wide-ranging and accessible introduction, which expertly and thoughtfully scrutinises the intersections between changing configurations of romantic love and the histories of both emotions and gender in modern Britain.” (Martin Francis, English Historical Review, Vol. 131 (552), October, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK

    Alana Harris

  • La Trobe University, Australia

    Timothy Willem Jones

  • University of South Wales, UK

    Timothy Willem Jones

About the editors

Stephen Brooke, York University, Toronto, USA Barbara Caine, University of Sydney, Australia Hera Cook, University of Sussex, UK April Gallwey, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK Charlotte Greenhalgh, Monash University, Australia Laura King, University of Leeds, UK Claire Langhamer, University of Sussex, UK Helen Smith, University of Sheffield, UK Gillian Swanson, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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