This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees. The editors, Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main) and Ansgar Nunning (Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen), are working with an international editorial board of renowned scholars: Aleida Assmann (Universitat Konstanz), Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna), Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Udo Hebel (Universitat Regensburg), Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow), Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University), Alison Landsberg (George Mason University), Claus Leggewie (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen), Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia), Susannah Radstone (University of South Australia), Ann Rigney (Utrecht University), Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois), Werner Sollors (Harvard University), Frederic Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen), Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen) To learn more about the series, also visit us at the MSA conference in Madrid, June 25 - 28, 2019.

As a dynamic phenomenon, 'cultural memory' is also regulated by emotions. Emotions are part and parcel of social, historical, and cultural modes of being and exert a decisive influence on them. The articles in this volume examine the symbolism, function, and significance of the love affect in French texts from the period 1650 and 1750 in terms of what they have to tell us about the development of cultural memory. The articles concentrate systematically on the forms taken by the understanding of affects at the time and trace the emergence of new models against the background of notions of eros, philia, and agape. The fruits of these studies are culture-semiotic perspectives on love, indicating a higher level of reflection on the understanding of affects and defining for the first time from a theory-guided viewpoint the new positions taking shape in the historical/anthropological field. The volume also contains a comprehensive research bibliography.