Love
A Thinking Allowed special on 'romantic love' presented by Laurie Taylor.
A Thinking Allowed special on 'love'. What are the origins of our notions of high romantic love? Was the post war period a 'golden age' for lifelong love? Has marriage for love now failed? Laurie Taylor hopes to finds some answers with the help of the social historian, Claire Langhamer, the philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, and the sociologist, Professor Mary Evans.Revised repeat.
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Pascal Bruckner
Novelist and philosopher
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Has Marriage for Love Failed?
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN-10: 0745669786
ISBN-13: 978-0745669786
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sussex
Claire Langhamer
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sussex
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The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN-10: 0199594430
ISBN-13: 978-0199594436
Mary Evans
Emeritus Professor, University of Kent
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Love: An Unromantic Discussion
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN-10: 0745620736
ISBN-13: 978-0745620732
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