All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (64 page)

Bohemian lifestyles

education and childhood

families

marriage in

mothers in

romantic novels

sense of decline in late century

sexual double standards in

sexuality in

violence

Virgil

virginity

early Christianity and

virtual networks

Voltaire

Walpole, Horace

Walpole, Robert

Wandervogel
(youth movement)

Warner, Marina,
Alone of All Her Sex

Webb, Beatrice

Weber, Max

Weekley, Frieda (von Richthofen)

Weimar Germany

welfare and health systems

Wells, H.G.

Ann Veronica

West, Rebecca

West Side Story
(musical)

Whately, William

White, Edmund

A Boy’s Own Story

My Lives

Wilde, Oscar

‘Ballad of Reading Gaol’

A Woman of No Importance

Wilmot, John (2nd Earl of Rochester)

Wilson, Frances

Winehouse, Amy

Winfrey, Oprah

Winnicott, Donald

on adolescence

Wollstonecraft, Mary

women

adultery as deadly

biological clock

Civil War and

contemporary needs

disgust with the carnal

equality and
see
equality issues

father-daughter relationship

friendship and

Great War and

growing up

in jazz age

libertine tradition

male use of pornography and

no legal status in marriage

as ‘passive’/’masochistic’

popular romances and

‘psychical impotence’ concept

rights campaigns in Victorian era

‘self-esteem’ and

sexual anxiety

sexual desire and

sexual desire and modernity

sexual empowerment and

suburban life

traditional psychosexual posture

violence against

see also
mothers

Women’s Freedom League

Women’s League of Health and Beauty

women’s movement and feminism

Woods, Tiger

Woolf, Virginia

A Room of One’s Own

Wordsworth, Dorothy

Wordsworth, William

‘Tintern Abbey’

workplace

1980s backlash against single women

Great War as agent for change

mid-twentieth century

mobile job market and

in Second World War

women and

Wyatt, Jane

Yates, Richard,
Revolutionary Road

yearning/longing

for early/shaping attachments

Yeats, W.B.

Young, Robert

Extracts from Miriam Lichtheim,
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. 2: The New Kingdom
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976). Reproduced by permission of the University of California Press. Extracts from Sigmund Freud,
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
, 24 volumes (London: The Hogarth Press, 1986). Reproduced by arrangement with Paterson Marsh Ltd. Extracts from Stanley Cavell, “Knowledge as Transgression: Mostly a Reading of
It Happened One Night
,”
Daedalus
, 109:3 (Spring 1980), pp. 147–76. © 1980 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Extract from “An Arundel Tomb” copyright © the Estate of Philip Larkin, reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd. Extract from Aeschylus,
The Oresteia
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. Extract from
The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan. Copyright © 1987 by Ian McEwan. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author. Extract from
Saturday
by Ian McEwan reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

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The Philosophical Dictionary
, 1764. La Rochefoucauld,
Maximes
, 439 (Robert/Laffont, Paris, 1959). Saint Augustine,
Tractates on the Gospel of John
, 40:10. Turgenev,
First Love
(1860; Penguin: London, 1950. Trans. Isiah Berlin). Stanley Cavell,
Pursuits of Happiness
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Goethe, Kanzler Friedrich von Muller,
Unterhaltungen mit Goethe
hsg C.A.H. Burkhardt, Stuttgart 1898. Dr. Johnson, in History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia,
The Complete Works of Samuel Johnson
, vol 3, (London: Longman, 1972). Marcel Proust,
Remembrance of Things Past
, trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (London: Penguin Books, 1981). Honoré de Balzac,
The Physiology of Marriage
(London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1900). Sigmund Freud,
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
, 3 vols, Ernest Jones, (New York: Basic Books, 1953–57). Emily Dickinson,
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
, Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.), (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894).