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All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

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by Lisa Appignanesi


  Ruskin, John

  Russell, Rosalind

  Ryder, Sir Dudley

  ‘safe sex’

  Sanskrit literature

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Scandinavia

  ‘science’, popular

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Second World War

  secrecy

  secularism

  seduction, arts of

  self-esteem

  ‘selfish gene’ metaphor

  Seneca

  Sex and the City (TV series)

  sexiness and glamour

  sexual desire and sexuality

  in adolescence

  advice industry

  arrival of children and

  in belle époque France

  as ‘casual’

  celibacy as transgressive

  in childhood

  contemporary lack of intimacy

  in contemporary literature

  courtly love and

  danger and

  disgust with the carnal

  in early twentieth-century USA

  excess of choice and

  Freud on

  intensity of

  irrationality of

  marriage and

  media commodification of

  mid-twentieth century

  orgasm

  the physical act

  in Plato

  post-Great War

  prohibitions and rules

  repressive mores and

  rituals of

  ‘self-esteem’ and

  in Victorian era

  women and

  women and modernity

  words used for the sexual act

  see also passion; the erotic

  sexual hypocrisy see hypocrisy/double standards, sexual

  sexual revolution

  backlashes against

  empowerment

  fidelity and

  paradoxes of

  sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)

  Shakespeare, William

  Hamlet

  Henry IV Part 1

  King Lear

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  Othello

  Romeo and Juliet

  The Winter’s Tale

  As You Like It

  Shelly, Percy Bysshe

  Shklar, Judith

  siblings

  displacement of first-born

  jealousy and

  in myth and literature

  ties of love

  ‘Silver Ring Thing’

  Sinatra, Frank

  Slumdog Millionaire (film)

  Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations

  Smith, Zadie

  The Smiths

  social class

  aristocracy

  in France

  Great War as agent for change

  historical development of

  in literature

  marriage and

  motherhood and

  in USA

  Victorian era and

  social revolution (late 1960s)

  socialism

  Solon

  songs

  Spears, Britney

  speed-dating

  Spencer, Herbert

  St Jerome

  Stack, Mollie

  star-crossed lovers

  Stardust (film)

  Stendhal

  The Red and the Black

  The Stepford Wives (film)

  Sterne, Laurence

  Stoller, Robert

  Stone, Lawrence

  Stopes, Marie, Married Love

  storytelling

  Strachey, Lytton

  Strindberg, August, Dance of Death

  suburbanization

  suicide

  in literature

  superstition

  syphilis

  Tanner, Tony

  Teddlie, Delilah Mae

  teenagers

  see also adolescence

  television

  templates of love

  Temple, Sir William

  Terry, John

  Thanatos

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Thorn, Tracey, Love and Its Opposite

  Thurman, Judith

  Todd, Janet

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Anna Karenina

  traditional cultures

  transgender politics

  transgression

  celibacy as

  first love and

  Trobriand Islanders

  ‘True Love Waits’ movement

  Turgenev, Ivan, First Love

  twin souls concept

  United States of America (USA)

  American gothic literature

  cohabitation in

  ‘common law’ marriages

  Declaration of Independence

  declining birth rate (1880-1920)

  disapproval of infidelity in

  divorce in

  infidelity in

  market turnover culture in

  marriage in 1950s

  marriage in nineteenth-century

  nineteenth-century public morality

  popularity of marriage

  religious evangelicism

  sexual double standards in

  sexuality in early twentieth-century

  spending on weddings

  suburbanization in

  Updike, John

  Valium

  Viagra

  Victoria, Queen

  Victorian era

  Bohemian lifestyles

  education and childhood

  families

  marriage in

  mothers in

  romantic novels

  sense of decline in late century

  sexual double standards in

  sexuality in

  violence

  Virgil

  virginity

  early Christianity and

  virtual networks

  Voltaire

  Walpole, Horace

  Walpole, Robert

  Wandervogel (youth movement)

  Warner, Marina, Alone of All Her Sex

  Webb, Beatrice

  Weber, Max

  Weekley, Frieda (von Richthofen)

  Weimar Germany

  welfare and health systems

  Wells, H.G.

  Ann Veronica

  West, Rebecca

  West Side Story (musical)

  Whately, William

  White, Edmund

  A Boy’s Own Story

  My Lives

  Wilde, Oscar

  ‘Ballad of Reading Gaol’

  A Woman of No Importance

  Wilmot, John (2nd Earl of Rochester)

  Wilson, Frances

  Winehouse, Amy

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Winnicott, Donald

  on adolescence

  Wollstonecraft, Mary

  women

  adultery as deadly

  biological clock

  Civil War and

  contemporary needs

  disgust with the carnal

  equality and see equality issues

  father-daughter relationship

  friendship and

  Great War and

  growing up

  in jazz age

  libertine tradition

  male use of pornography and

  no legal status in marriage

  as ‘passive’/’masochistic’

  popular romances and

  ‘psychical impotence’ concept

  rights campaigns in Victorian era

  ‘self-esteem’ and

  sexual anxiety

  sexual desire and

  sexual desire and modernity

  sexual empowerment and

  suburban life

  traditional psychosexual posture

  violence against

  see also mothers

  Women’s Freedom League

  Women’s League of Health and Beauty

&
nbsp; women’s movement and feminism

  Woods, Tiger

  Woolf, Virginia

  A Room of One’s Own

  Wordsworth, Dorothy

  Wordsworth, William

  ‘Tintern Abbey’

  workplace

  1980s backlash against single women

  Great War as agent for change

  mid-twentieth century

  mobile job market and

  in Second World War

  women and

  Wyatt, Jane

  Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road

  yearning/longing

  for early/shaping attachments

  Yeats, W.B.

  Young, Robert

  Copyright Acknowledgements

  Extracts from Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. 2: The New Kingdom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976). Reproduced by permission of the University of California Press. Extracts from Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 volumes (London: The Hogarth Press, 1986). Reproduced by arrangement with Paterson Marsh Ltd. Extracts from Stanley Cavell, “Knowledge as Transgression: Mostly a Reading of It Happened One Night,” Daedalus, 109:3 (Spring 1980), pp. 147–76. © 1980 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Extract from “An Arundel Tomb” copyright © the Estate of Philip Larkin, reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd. Extract from Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. Extract from The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. Copyright © 1987 by Ian McEwan. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author. Extract from Saturday by Ian McEwan reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

  Epigraph credits: Voltaire, The Philosophical Dictionary, 1764. La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 439 (Robert/Laffont, Paris, 1959). Saint Augustine, Tractates on the Gospel of John, 40:10. Turgenev, First Love (1860; Penguin: London, 1950. Trans. Isiah Berlin). Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Goethe, Kanzler Friedrich von Muller, Unterhaltungen mit Goethe hsg C.A.H. Burkhardt, Stuttgart 1898. Dr. Johnson, in History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, The Complete Works of Samuel Johnson, vol 3, (London: Longman, 1972). Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (London: Penguin Books, 1981). Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage (London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1900). Sigmund Freud, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 3 vols, Ernest Jones, (New York: Basic Books, 1953–57). Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.), (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894).

 

 

 


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