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"A wide-ranging and beautifully dialectical analysis of the
modern discourses on love and intimacy. David Shumway overturns
some of the usual assumptions about romantic love and, in the
process makes original, often surprising observations about
literature, movies, pop music, self-help books, and a variety of
other texts. Modern Love is a pleasure to read, and it contributes
significantly to our understanding of modernity."
--James Naremore, Indiana University
"Fascinating and timely."
--"Intams Review"
"An extremely valuable contribution to the history of that
supposedly timeless ideal, the intimate relationship."
--Elizabeth Freeman, author of "The Wedding Complex"
"A cultural study of love and marriage in fiction and film
rather than a history of recent marriage, "Modern Love" illuminates
the complexities of an important recent development in American
marital ideals."
--"The Journal of American History"
"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 institutional function of
controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be
seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss.
Over the course of the twentieth century, partly in response to
this crisis, a new language of love--"intimacy"--emerged, not so
much replacing but rather coexisting with the earlier language of
"romance."
Reading a wide range of texts, from earlytwentieth-century
advice columns and their late twentieth-century antecedent, the
relationship self-help book, to Hollywood screwball comedies, and
from the "relationship films" of Woody Allen and his successors to
contemporary realist novels about marriages, Shumway argues that
the kinds of stories the culture has told itself have changed. Part
layperson's history of marriage and romance, part meditation on
intimacy itself, Modern Love will be both amusing and interesting
to almost anyone who thinks about relationships (and who
doesn't?).
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