The Culture of Love - Victorians to Moderns

This text examines the portrayal of love in literature and art over a period of change from Jane Eyre (1847) to the mid-1930s, focusing on basic elements of love - embodiment, desire, language, sex and power - along with specific situations - waiting, proposing, jealousy, wedding and ending.

About the author

Stephen Kern is Professor of History at The Ohio State University.

Summary

Kern interprets the sweeping change in loving that spanned a period when scientific discoveries reduced the terrors and dangers of sex, when new laws gave married women control over their earnings and their bodies, when bold novelists and artists shook off the prudishness and hypocrisy that so paralyzed the Victorians.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Kern, Kern Stephen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1998
• EAN: 9780674179592
• ISBN: 978-0-674-17959-2
• Weight: 635 g
• Illustrations: 57 halftones
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Cultural Studies, 20th Century, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form