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Title: AFTER INTIMACY
THE CULTURE OF DIVORCE IN THE WEST SINCE 1789
By: Karl Leydecker (Editor), Nicholas White (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 3039101439
ISBN 13: 9783039101436
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Publisher: VERLAG PETER LANG
Pub. date: 1 October, 2007
Series: European Connections 10
Pages: 295
Synopsis: Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the variety of academic responses it has started to create. Bringing together the reflections of scholars from the UK and North America who have worked in this domain, this study offers for the first time a genuinely wide-ranging account of the depiction of divorce across the northern hemisphere in a number of media (fiction, journalism, film and television). It reaches historically from the intellectual and legal aftermath of the Enlightenment right up to the present day. As such, the collection shows both the roots of this apparently contemporary phenomenon in nineteenth-century literary practice and the very particular ways in which divorce characterises the different narrative media of modernity.
Publication: Switzerland
Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
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