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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVerlag Peter Lang
ISBN-139783039101436
eBay Product ID (ePID)128824799
Product Key Features
Book TitleAfter Intimacy: the Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789
Number of Pages295 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicLiterature, Zoology
TypeTextbook
AuthorKarl Leydecker, Nicholas White
Book SeriesEuropean Connections
Dimensions
Item Height150 mm
Item Weight450 g
Additional Product Features
EditorNicholas White, Karl Leydecker
Country/Region of ManufactureSwitzerland