Love and Romance in Britain, 1918–1970

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Introduction: Historicizing 'Modern' Love and Romance / Timothy Willem Jones and Alana Harris -- 1. Love and Romance in Interwar British Women's Autobiography / Barbara Caine -- 2. The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain / Laura King -- 3. Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Helen Smith -- 4. 'A Certain Amount of Mush': Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Stephen Brooke -- 5. Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s / April Gallwey -- 6. Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain / Timothy Willem Jones -- 7. Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain / Charlotte Greenhalgh -- 8. 'The Love of a Pitiable Dog': Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology / Gillian Swanson -- 9. Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State / Alana Harris -- 10. Nova 1965 -- 1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It / Hera Cook -- Afterword /Claire Langhamer.