Publisher's Synopsis
Focusing on Europe between the two world wars, this volume explores connections between love, culture and ideology. It investigates different ways in which historians, politicians, psychoanalysts and psychologists analyzed the crisis of European civilization, providing a history of ideas and emotions.;The author's study of specific texts ranges from bestselling novels to artworks set in the context of debates on marriage, sex and friendship. She concludes with the story of a correspondence between spouses - an English woman and a German man - during World War II, an example of what it could mean to live the European dimension of a love relationship in that historical moment.
