{"product_id":"love-barbara-h-rosenwein-9781509531837","title":"Love: A History in Five Fantasies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs, and art, and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love: like-minded union, transcendent rapture, selfless giving, obsessive longing, and insatiable desire. Each has had a long and tangled history with lasting effects on how we in the West think about love today. Yet each leads to a different conclusion about what we should strive for in our relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf only we could peel back the layers of love and discover its \"true\" essence. But love doesn't work like that; it is constructed on the shards of experience, story, and feeling, shared over time, intertwined with other fantasies. By understanding the history of how we have loved, Rosenwein argues, we may better navigate our own tumultuous experiences and perhaps write our own scripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara H. Rosenwein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509531831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509531837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d","brand":"Barbara H. Rosenwein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044812189951,"sku":"9781509531837","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9bf3432-7b5a-4c6f-8a70-09989d308514.jpg?v=1684975035","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-barbara-h-rosenwein-9781509531837","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}