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NYU Press, Date: 2003-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good. 2003. NYU Press ISBN 0814798314 9780814798317 [US]

ISBN10: 0814798314, ISBN13: 9780814798317, [publisher: New York University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. This title presents the history of marriage and romance.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Paperback / softback. New. Argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. This title presents the history of marriage and romance. ISBN 0814798314 9780814798317 [GB]

ISBN10: 0814798314, ISBN13: 9780814798317, [publisher: New York University Press, United States, New York] Softcover My ideas of romance came from the movies, said Woody Allen, and it is to the moviesas well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help booksthat David Shumway turns for his history of modern love. Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. Over the course of the twentieth century, partly in response to this crisis, a new language of loveintimacyemerged, not so much replacing but rather coexisting with the earlier language of romance. Reading a wide range of texts, from early twentieth-century advice columns and their late twentieth-century antecedent, the relationship self-help book, to Hollywood screwball comedies, and from the relationship films of Woody Allen and his successors to contemporary realist novels about marriages, Shumway argues that the kinds of stories the culture has told itself have changed. Part laypersons history of marriage and romance, part meditation on intimacy itself, Modern Love will be both amusing and interesting to almost anyone who thinks about relationships (and who doesnt?). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains ...

ISBN10: 0814798314, ISBN13: 9780814798317, [publisher: New York Univ Pr] Softcover illustrated edition. 269 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

NYU Press, Date: 2003-08-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2003. NYU Press ISBN 0814798314 9780814798317 [US]