Promises, Promises
Erin Maglaque: The Love Plot, 21 April 2022
Love: A History in Five Fantasies
by Barbara Rosenwein.
Polity, 220 pp., £20, October 2021,978 1 5095 3183 7 Show More
by Barbara Rosenwein.
Polity, 220 pp., £20, October 2021,
“... with the facts.So love has a history. Does knowing that make it survivable? ‘In my view,’ Barbara Rosenwein writes, ‘knowing love’s history may also be – is – a kind of therapy, helping free us from stories that appear to be fixed and true for all time.’ Such stories are the terrain of the history of emotions, which is concerned with ... ”