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This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized — issues which have become central to the emergence of ‘queer’ as a new form of gender politics and more general questions of sexual citizenship. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, this book contains a wide-ranging and accessible set of contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism.
‘Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe’: Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture
‘Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe’: Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture
… being inclined to marry, he soon fancied himself in love….
To ‘fancy’ ourselves in love is one of the dominating themes of post-Enlightenment narrative fiction. From Austen to Tolstoy to E.M. ...
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