The Nature of Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Irving Singer
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: History of ideas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: History, Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Literary criticism
In the late 1970's, many cultural critics grew alarmed at the phenomenal success of paperback romances that told and retold a formulized story of attraction, struggle, and climactic union—in 1980, Harlequin Books alone was responsible for 10 percent of the paperbacks sold in North America, to say nothing of the output of a dozen other publishers of “contemporary romance.” In the late 1980's, it has suddenly become apparent that love has also been the subject of an extraordinary number of scholarly books by psychologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, and other people of...
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