Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970.

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Historicizing 'Modern' Love and Romance -- 1 Love and Romance in Interwar British Women's Autobiography -- 2 The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain -- 3 Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 4 'A Certain Amount of Mush': Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- 5 Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s -- 6 Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain -- 7 Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain -- 8 'The Love of a Pitiable Dog': Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology -- 9 Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State -- 10 Nova 1965-1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It -- Afterword -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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