‘A Hunger Artist’
Kãstner, Erich
Kinsey reports (1948, 1953)
Kipnis, Laura, Against Love
Klein, Melanie
Kollontai, Alexandra
Kramer vs Kramer (film)
Kureishi, Hanif
Intimacy
‘Strangers When We Meet’
La Boétie, Étienne de
La Rochefoucauld
La Rochelle, Pierre Drieu
Lacan, Jacques
Lamb, Charles
Lamb, Mary
Langhamer, Claire
language
acquisition
Larkin, Philip
‘An Arundel Tomb’
‘This Be The Verse’
Lawrence, D.H.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sons and Lovers
Leigh, Augusta
Lemmings, David
Leonardo da Vinci
lesbianism
Lette, Kathy
Levinas, Emmanuel
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewes, George Henry
Lewis, C.S.
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
liberal social consensus
liberalism
libertine tradition
Linklater, Alex
literature and fiction
adultery in
adventure stories
American gothic
Ancient
babies in
‘chick lit’
families in
fathers and daughters in
friendship in
jealousy in
marriage in see marriage, in literature
popular romances
romantic love in see romantic love, in literature
sex in
Locke, John
Some Thoughts concerning Education
Two Treatises on Government
lone parents
Lost in Austen (TV series)
lost love
first love and
Louis XIV, King of France
Louise, Princess
Ludovici, Anthony M.
Luther, Martin
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Mad Men (television series)
madness
Madonna
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Malraux, André, Man’s Fate
Mamma Mia! (film)
Mann, Thomas, Buddenbrooks
Margolis, Zoe (Abby Lee)
Marion, Henri
marriage
age of consent
age of first marriage
in Antiquity
aristocratic form
‘arranged’
children as reviving of
choice and
clandestine
‘common law’
conflict and disappointments in
contemporary uncertainty
courtly love and
division of labour in
the Enlightenment and
equality issues and
in fairy tales
fantasy of
to first love
in France
of Freud
fundamental matters
‘golden age of’
growing up and
guidebooks/manuals
health and
history of (eighteenth-century)
Jane Austen and
as legal form
in literature
in literature (contemporary)
in literature (continental)
love as factor within
mid-twentieth century
Montaigne on
notions of perfection
polygamy
post-Great War
in pre-eighteenth-century England
in primitive societies
Puritanism and
pursuit of happiness and
rates and durability
the Reformation and
religion and
remarriage to same partner
rupture of mid-century ideal
Samuel Johnson on
settling down/finding partner
sex and
Shakespeare on
support for/popularity of
in USA
in Victorian era
Marriage Act (1753)
Married Women’s Property Act (1870, 1882)
Mars (god)
Martin, Kingsley
Martineau, Harriet
masochism
masturbation
matchmakers
McCullers, Carson, The Ballad of the Sad Café
McEwan, Ian
On Chesil Beach
The Child in Time
Saturday
the media
1950 s consumerism and
commodification of sex
gay culture and
hypersexualized images in
marriage and
sexualization of younger women
medical science
memory
of absent lover
childhood
early childhood
families and
Proust and
songs and
men
age at marriage
capability for love
eating disorders
fundamental ‘rapaciousness’
growing up
infantilization of
libertine tradition
media representations of bodies
the new man
‘psychical impotence’ concept
sex and emotion
sexual anxiety
‘sexual equality’ culture and
see also fathers
Mencken, H.L.
menstruation
mental illness
Meyer, Stephenie, Twilight series
‘milf’ (slang word)
Mill, Harriet Taylor
Mill, John Stuart
The Subjection of Women
Millet, Catherine
Jealousy
The Sexual Life of Catherine M
Mills & Boon
Milne, A.A.
Milton, John, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Miltown (sedative)
modernity
post-Great War
monomania
Montaigne, Michel de
Moonstruck (film)
Moore, Demi
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Morrissey
Mortier, Erwin
mothers
in 1950s era
absence of
breast feeding
care model
childbirth
as child’s primary carer
child’s symbiotic love for
in Cinderella stories
cult of idealized motherhood
de Beauvoir on
early mothering
iconic purity of Mary
infant’s dependence on
in literature
from little boy’s perspective
from little girl’s perspective
Mary/baby Jesus narrative
mother-love
natural paradigm
in pop culture
pre-twentieth-century
sharing of
taboo of sexual mother
‘unconditional love’ term
in Victorian era
women’s movement and
Mumsnet
Munro, Alice, ‘Carried Away’
Mussolini, Benito
MySpace
myths
Egyptian
Greek
modern
Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
Napoleon
Nayar of East India
neuroscience
neuroses
Newnham College, Cambridge
Nietzsche
, Friedrich
Norris, Charles G., Bread
Nugent, Robert
obsessive compulsive disorder
obsessive nature of love
jealousy and
older people
cross-generational unions
O’Neill, Joseph, Netherland
Orbach, Susie
Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ottoman Empire
Ouida, Under Two Flags
Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Oxford women’s colleges
Padel, Ruth, Where the Serpent Lives
paedophilia
Paglia, Camille
Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence
Papini, Giovanni
parents
children as vehicles of hopes
dysfunctional
enjoying of children
expert advice for
imaginative understanding
lone parents
over-zealous
setting of limits
see also fathers; mothers
parthenogenesis
Partridge, Ralph
passion
ambivalence of
arrival of children and
courtly love and
dissipation of
excessive nature of
as fevered state
permeability to the other
Plato on
see also first love; sexual desire and sexuality; the erotic
Patmore, Coventry
patriarchal culture
families and
Kafka on
Virgin Mary and
Patton, Claire
penises
Perel, Esther, Mating in Captivity
Pericles
Perkins, William
permissive era
Great War as agent for change
prohibitions and rules in
youth and
see also sexual revolution
Person, Ethel Spector
Petrarch, the Canzoniere
The Philadelphia Story (film)
Philip II, King of France
Philipson, Mrs Hilton
Phillips, Adam
philosophy
photography
Pinter, Harold, Betrayal
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan, ‘Annabel Lee’
poetry
of Provençal troubadours
political correctness
polygamy
Pope, Alexander, Essay on Man
pornography
Porter, Cole
postmodernism
poverty
pregnancy
fantasies/fears during
last stages of
prenuptial agreements
Presley, Elvis
primal state, return to
primitivism
privacy
prohibitions and rules
contemporary puritanism
in fiction
inhibitions
Muslim women and
in permissive age
‘psychical impotence’ concept
prostitution
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Psyche
psychiatry
psychoanalysis
‘as if’ personalities
‘cure through love’
friendship and
homosexuality and
infancy and
see also Freud, Sigmund
psychology
evolutionary
friendship and
infancy and
literature and
motherhood and
siblings and
psychotherapy
puberty
punishment
biblical
Puritanism
Quebec
Raikes, Harry
the Reformation
rejection
relational therapy
religion
adultery and
fundamentalism
Islam
marriage and
see also Catholic Church; Christianity
Renaissance
reproduction, assisted
reproductive urge
Restoration comedy
Reynolds, Debbie
Richardson, Samuel
rights, culture of
risk
Robbins, Amy Catherine (‘Jane’ Wells)
Roiphe, Katie, Uncommon Arrangements
Roman Empire
romantic love
advice industry and
Christian paradigm and
cinema and
coup de foudre
falling in love
feminist critique of
in literature
in literature (contemporary)
in literature (continental)
marriage and
obsessive
playing hard to get
popular romances and
songs and
star-crossed lovers
transformative power of
twin souls concept
Romantic movement
Romieu, Madame
Rouchefoucauld-Liancourt, duc de la
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr Right (Fein and Schneider)