Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Whatever Happened to Romantic Love?; 3. He Speaks/She Speaks: Language in Some Medieval Love Literature; 4. The Politics of Courtship; 5. Marvell's ""Nymph"": A Study of Feminine Consciousness; 6. Romantic Narcissism: Freud and the Love O/Abject; 7. On Splitting the Sexual Object: Before and After Freud; 8. The Feminine Bildungsroman: Education through Marriage; 9. Ibsen's Doll House: A Myth for Our Time; 10. Women and Love: Some Dying Myths; 11. ""A Natural and Necessary Monster"": Women in Men's Utopias
12. Love and the Sexual Object in Zamyatin's We and Orwell's 1984, with a Postscript on the Feminist Utopia13. The Female Body and the Male Mind: Reconsidering Simone de Beauvoir; 14. The Return of Romantic Love: Living the Literature; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.--Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.--Irving Howe This is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.--Times Literary Supplement In these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love
