Where Love Happens

Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth Century

by Helene Grøn (Volume editor), Lene Østermark-Johansen (Volume editor),
Viktoria de Rijke (Volume editor)
©2025, Edited Collection, XXII, 328 Pages

English Studies

Open Access
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, Volume 51

CHAPTER

Acknowledgements (PDF)

P. xxi-xxii

Introduction (PDF)

P. 1-15

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)

Helene Grøn

P. 19-49

The Homosexual World of Love and Ritual: Love and Painting in Britain, 1860–1920

Michael Hatt

P. 51-76

Fairy Tale Love: Little Red Riding Hood and Photography, 1820–1920

Viktoria de Rijke

P. 77-106

Corners of Love and Death: Probing into a Modern Obsession

James Hall

P. 107-140

Owd Friends: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and the Love of Things

Kirstie Blair

P. 143-160

‘There Is No Death’: Familial Love, Loss and (Re)connection in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist Literature

Emily Vincent

P. 161-187

From the Linden Trees to the Willows: Female Mourners of Goethe’s Werther in Eighteenth-Century England

Lene Østermark-Johansen

P. 189-218

Intimate Communication: Romantic Love as a Social Practice in Bettina von Arnim’s Clemens Brentano’s Frühlingskranz and Die Günderode

Alexander Knopf

P. 219-238

Fairy Lights: Light and a Changing Paradigm of Love at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Joanna Beaufoy

P. 241-263

‘Wherefore Flout / the Silent Blessing Fate’: Love, Fate and Metaphysics in John Keats and His Legacy

James Dowthwaite

P. 265-282

Teleoaffectivity: Love in Casa Guidi Windows

Jerome Wynter

P. 283-301

Coda

Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen and Viktoria de Rijke

P. 303-310

Notes on Contributors (PDF)

P. 311-314

Index (PDF)

P. 315-327