Research Catalog

Title

Europe in love, love in Europe : imagination and politics between the wars / Luisa Passerini.

Author

Passerini, Luisa

Publication

Washington Square, New York : New York University Press, 1999.

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Description

viii, 358 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

Luisa Passerini explores the emotional basis of the idea of a united Europe between the world wars, uncovering the meanings of European identity and European unity. She investigates the idea of a united Europe in connection with a discourse on love which had been developing in the West since the seventeenth century. These ideas were debated by literary scholars, novelists and poets, who focused on the theme of courtly love and its connections with romantic love. In a tour de force of political and cultural exploration, Luisa Passerini rediscovers the points of convergence between these two strands of thought, finding one of the symbols of their encounter in the myth of Europa, the Phoenician princess seduced by Zeus in the shape of a bull and brought westward.

Subject

• Europa (Greek mythological character)
• Love > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• English literature > European influences
• Love > Europe > History > 20th century
• Love in literature
• Great Britain > European influences
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Great Britain > Relations > Europe
• Europe > Relations > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Civilization > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-344) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Europa in East Anglia. Europa's Beast by Ralph H. Mottram. A 'European' love story. Modern men. Visuality. Olive/Europa/Europe -- 2. Ideas of Europe. The dream of the United States of Europe. Dawson's Christian Community. Minds between war and peace: psycho-analysts and psychologists on the crisis of European civilisation -- 3. New Europe. Mitrinovic and Orage. The Adler Society. The New Europe group and the New Britain movement. Eutopia or Atlantis? -- 4. Europa Reappears From a New East. Briffault's The Mothers. Europa and Europa in Limbo. Life and death of a nomadic subject -- 5. Provencal Love -- The Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis. A long dispute: the Europeanness of courtly love. Travelling to Provence.

ISBN

0814766986

LCCN

^^^98055135^

OCLC

40602669

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library