All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion Book

Acknowledgements xi

Part 1 Overture: The Riddle of Love

Part 2 Configurations of Passion: First Love, Young Love

Falling 25

Coup de Foudre 31

In Love Again 37

Twin Souls 42

That Romantic Feeling 43

Crazy about You 47

The Lure of the Forbidden 56

The New Religion 61

The Question of Sex 53

Excess and Its Discontents 69

Finding Mr Right 78

Inventing Love 88

Part 3 Love And Marriage

Prom Antiquity to the Reformation 113

The Companionate Marriage 122

France: From Old Regimes to New 127

Victorian Marriage 133

Republican Marriage 141

Decline of an Institution 142

Unconventional Arrangements 148

Post-War 161

The Mid-twentieth-century Marriage 167

Unmaking Marriage 172

Today's Unsettled Unions 179

Happily Ever After 184

Trouble in Paradise 189

Reinventions 201

Part 4 Love In Triangles

Adulterous Passions 209

The Way of All Marriage 213

The Green-eyed Monster 229

Contemporary Infidelities 249

Looking In 261

Part 5 Love In Families

Babies 269

Mother-love 277

Expert Knowledge 288

The Child in History 295

Unconditional Love 300

Erotic Intruders 304

Father-love 306

Love's Crucible 314

Siblings 323

Grandparents 331

Changing Families 333

Part 6 Love and Friendship

The Most Fully Human of All Loves 341

Female Friends 352

Shaping Friendships 357

For Better or for Worse 359

Coda: The Love You Make 364

Notes 367

Select Bibliography 380

Index 387

Copyright Acknowledgements 403