Love: A History in Five Fantasies

by Barbara H Rosenwein and Barbara H. Rosenwein

We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgements.

Drawing on philosophy, fiction, art, letters, memoirs, and evidence from everyday life, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love: Like-minded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509531831
• ISBN13: 9781509531837
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"