Where Love Happens
Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Cultural Interactions
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Relationships at the Margins: Love as Alibi
- Chapter 1: Reading with the Heart: Tracing Love and Human Rights across Ellen and William Craft’s Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) and Mary Louisa Gordon’s Chase of the Wild Goose (1936)
- Reading love, reading rights, or, reading with the heart
- ‘Boy, do you belong to that Gentleman?’: Marriage, law and the language of love and ownership
- ‘Novelising the Narrative’: Genre, collaboration and co-writing for abolition
- ‘Sketched by many hands’: Celebrated virgins, celibacy and a romantic friendship
- Describing the world from the top of a staircase: The lineage of rights and love in Chase of the Wild Goose
- Continuing to read with one’s heart
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2: The Homosexual World of Love and Ritual: Love and Painting in Britain, 1860–1920
- The promise and failure of love’s grounding: Simeon Solomon
- The reality of love’s grounding: Clare ‘Tony’ Atwood
- The task of the least: Love and the history of art
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: Fairy Tale Love: Little Red Riding Hood and Photography, 1820–1920
- Prologue
- Once upon a time, fairy tale
- Unfixed conclusions
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4: Corners of Love and Death: Probing into a Modern Obsession
- Preamble
- Rococo corners
- A female foot, and a girl, in the corner
- Corners of creation
- Hot and cold corners
- Purging the (female) corner
- Bibliography
- Part 2: Reconnecting Love: Thresholds of Communication
- Chapter 5: Owd Friends: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and the Love of Things
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6: ‘There Is No Death’: Familial Love, Loss and (Re)connection in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist Literature
- ‘[A]ctual, irrefragable proof’: Florence Marryat, There Is No Death and The Dead Man’s Message
- ‘[S]entiment is not excluded’: Oliver Lodge and Raymond
- ‘[A] family-party, met for family-purposes’: The Brownings and ‘Mr Sludge’
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7: From the Linden Trees to the Willows: Female Mourners of Goethe’s Werther in Eighteenth-Century England
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8: Intimate Communication: Romantic Love as a Social Practice in Bettina von Arnim’s Clemens Brentano’s Frühlingskranz and Die Günderode
- ‘Love is only divine dialogue’
- ‘First sibling love’
- ‘Cries of my heart for you’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part 3: Love Illuminated: Transforming ‘Cold Philosophy’
- Chapter 9: Fairy Lights: Light and a Changing Paradigm of Love at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- Dance, surge and flash: The aesthetics of ‘becoming’ over ‘being’
- The electricity fairy’s protective magic in a ‘war on risk’
- Night lights
- Domesticating the electric fairy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10: ‘Wherefore Flout / the Silent Blessing Fate’: Love, Fate and Metaphysics in John Keats and His Legacy
- Love and fate in Keats’ work
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11: Teleoaffectivity: Love in Casa Guidi Windows
- Teleoaffectivity in Casa Guidi Windows
- Bibliography
- Chapter 12: Coda
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Cultural Interactions
Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Edited by J.B. Bullen
Volume 51
Dedicated to those we love.
Give me a mind in unison with my own and I’ll find the way of happiness – without it, I should feel alone among multitudes; and all the world would seem to me a desert.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you construed me
And loved me for what might or might not be –
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
Contents
Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen and Viktoria de Rijke
Part I Relationships at the Margins: Love as Alibi
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Helene Grøn
Michael Hatt
2 The Homosexual World of Love and Ritual: Love and Painting in Britain, 1860–1920
Viktoria de Rijke
3 Fairy Tale Love: Little Red Riding Hood and Photography, 1820–1920
James Hall
4 Corners of Love and Death: Probing into a Modern Obsession
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Part II Reconnecting Love: Thresholds of Communication
Kirstie Blair
5 Owd Friends: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and the Love of Things
Emily Vincent
Lene Østermark-Johansen
Alexander Knopf
Part III Love Illuminated: Transforming ‘Cold Philosophy’
Joanna Beaufoy
9 Fairy Lights: Light and a Changing Paradigm of Love at the End of the Nineteenth Century
James Dowthwaite
Jerome Wynter
Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen and Viktoria de Rijke
Figures
Figure 1.4. William and Ellen Craft, 1872, The New York Public Library Digital Collection.
Figure 3.10. Advert for the film with Baby Peggy, Universal Weekly, 11 November 1922, open domain.
Figure 4.2. A Summer Corner, from J. E. Panton, Nooks and Corners, London 1889. Figure 5, 53.
Figure 4.3. A Winter Corner, from J. E. Panton, Nooks and Corners, London 1889. Figure 8, 60.
Figure 4.5. James Wyatt and James Thornton, Belvoir Castle, 1799–1832. David P. Howard.
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 328
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803745510
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803745527
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803745503
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21993
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (October)
- Keywords
- Where Love Happens Lene Østermark-Johansen Victoria de Rijke Helene Grøn Victorianism love studies social practices same-sex love race and gender human rights literary tourism spiritualism sculpture painting photography technology and ephemera art history the long nineteenth century applied arts transnationalism romanticism material culture
- Published
- Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. xxii, 328 pp., 35 fig. col., 30 fig. b/w.
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