Love and Romance in Britain, 1918–1970

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and Romance....Pages 1-19
Love and Romance in Interwar British Women’s Autobiography....Pages 20-40
The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 41-60
Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century....Pages 61-80
‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century....Pages 81-99
Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s....Pages 100-123
Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain....Pages 124-143
Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 144-160
‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology....Pages 161-187
Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State....Pages 188-224
Nova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It....Pages 225-244
Afterword....Pages 245-253
Back Matter....Pages 253-260