Research Catalog

Title

The natural history of love.

Author

Hunt, Morton M., 1920-2016.

Publication

New York, Knopf, 1959.

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Details

Description

xiii, 416, xiii pages illustrations

Summary

A panoramic history of emotional relationships between the sexes.

Subject

• Love > History
• Love
• Love
• Liefde
• Romantic love > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography.

Contents

The trouble with a word -- Love in the butterfly net -- The invention of love -- Love life of an insolent hero -- "Marriage brings a man only two happy days" -- The descent from primitivism -- The noble companion -- The love of a beautiful boy -- The limits and fate of Greek love -- Two views of pagan love -- The classic Roman love affair -- The passing of the old ideal -- The Lex Julia and Julia : a Roman tragedy -- The tutor of love, and the textbook of adultery -- The victory of Roman love -- Love as symptom and disease -- The dream of spiritual marriage -- The sources of asceticism -- The struggle against lust -- The transformation of marriage -- Saint Augustine : the victory of guilt -- The dark ages of love -- The heart's paradox -- Courtly love : a game that became a reality -- The service of woman -- The new love in theory and practice -- A new plant grows in an odd soil -- The founders and exponents -- Courtly love in the court of love -- The spread of the new doctrine -- The outcome of courtly love -- The flame of love, and the flame of the stake -- The courtier in love -- a two-dimensional portrait -- The courtier in love -- a three-dimensional portrait -- The minions of Satan -- Crosscurrents and contradictions -- The quarrel shows signs of a reconciliation -- "A wise man and lusty" marries a courtesan -- Puritanism revisited -- The anti-Augustinian -- The bluenoses -- The Puritan as sinner -- The Puritan as lover -- "Hail wedded love" -- The meaning of "puritanical" -- Love becomes ridiculous -- Gallantry and the "aching void" -- A one-man sample of Restoration love -- Love and polish in the eighteenth century -- The trouble with Don Juan -- The bourgeois gentleman -- A most unlikely love story -- The unmeaning of romanticism -- An apostle of romanticism and his gospel -- The practices of romantic love -- Household romanticism -- Private lives of some Victorians -- Emancipation and confusion -- Perfect love and some of its imperfect results -- By love obsessed -- The sexual revolution -- The new romanticism : dating and sex ; illusions and realities -- Love as panacea -- Who is woman? What is she? -- Grand design, with flaws -- Conclusion.

LCCN

59011050

OCLC

• ocm01260557
• 1260557
• SCSB-108742

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library