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Title
How the French invented love
Type
Monograph
Contribution
Yalom, Marilyn (Contributor)
Subject
Man-woman relationships--France--History
Love--France--History
Sex customs--France--History
France--Moral conditions--History
France--Social life and customs
National characteristics, French
French literature--History and criticism
Love in literature
Sex in literature
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
France
Classification
LCC: HQ18.F8 Y35 2012
DDC: 306.77/0944 full
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Supplementary Content
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Summary
Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memories of France, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l'amour has endured and evolved.
Table Of Contents
Abélard and Héloïse, patron saints of French lovers
Courtly love : how the French invented romance
Gallant love : La Princesse de Clèves
Comic love, tragic love : Molière and Racine
Seduction and sentiment : Prévost, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, and Laclos
Love letters : Julie de Lespinasse
Republican love : Elisabeth Le Bas and Madame Roland
Yearning for the mother : Constant, Stendahl, and Balzac
Love among the Romantics : George Sand and Alfred de Musset
Romantic love deflated : Madame Bovary
Love in the Gay Nineties : Cyrano de Bergerac
Love between men : Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Gide
Desire and despair : Proust's neurotic lovers
Lesbian love : Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Violette Leduc
Existentialists in love : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
The dominion of desire : Marguerite Duras
Love in the twenty-first century.
Authorized Access Point
Yalom, Marilyn How the French invented love
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Identified By: bf:Local, 17818413
Change Date: 2014-06-24T13:25:11
Creation Date: 2013-07-19
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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