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Where Love Happens

Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century

by Helene Grøn (Volume editor) Lene Østermark-Johansen (Volume editor) Victoria de Rijke (Volume editor)
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Summary

Some decades ago, Jean-Luc Nancy asked, ‘Has not everything been said on the subject of love? … Could we perhaps be exhausted?’ The question is a pertinent one; why devote yet another book to the subject? Grounding love in the realm of the concrete by querying, where does love happen?, the essays address hitherto under-researched aspects and aesthetics of love, like the love of the child, same-sex love, love of country, love for machines, controversial relationships, love of the dead, love of the past, and networks of relationships revolving around love and intimacy. Here, leading scholars suggest that changing social practices, developed in the course of the long nineteenth century, determined new spaces and places for love to happen, to unfold, develop – and break up. Thereby, the much-debated claim that romantic love is an invention of European Romanticism is challenged, asking if romantic love might not be less and other kinds of love far more romantic than at first imagined.

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Pages
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 (September)
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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Biographical notes

Helene Grøn (Volume editor) Lene Østermark-Johansen (Volume editor) Victoria de Rijke (Volume editor)

Helene Grøn holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow and is currently a Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. Lene Østermark-Johansen is Professor of English literature and art at the University of Copenhagen. Viktoria de Rijke is Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London.

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