A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Overview

A thinking-person's guide to romantic love, a bold and challenging book that makes the case for love in an age both cynical about and fearful of strong passion

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, political correctness, cynicism, pragmatism, and the commodification of sex have reduced romantic love to a discredited myth or a recreational sport--"a cause for embarrassment," argues Cristina Nehring. In her brilliantly researched first book, Nehring wrests romantic love from the clutches of retrograde feminists and cutting-edge capitalists, thrill-seeking convenience shoppers and safe-sex moralists. With help from celebrated lovers ranging from Heloise and Abelard to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and from literature as diverse as Ovid's Art of Love and the poems of Emily Dickinson, Nehring celebrates the wild, irreverent, and uncompromising models of love we have inherited. As she rediscovers romantic love's fearless and heroic provenance, she challenges readers to demand partnerships that fully engage body, heart, and mind.

In an age when "settling" is encouraged and marriage is often described in business terms, Nehring's passionate defense of romantic love is timely and thoroughly refreshing. By reclaiming the right to love, to yearn, and--yes--to risk, A Vindication of Love aims to establish a new romantic paradigm for a new century.

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Bio of Cristina Nehring

A highly acclaimed and consistently provocative critic and essayist, Cristina Nehring has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, Cond� Nast Traveler, New York Magazine, the American Scholar, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Paris, Los Angeles, and Chania, Greece with her infant daughter, Eurydice.

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Imprint

HarperCollins Publishers

Filesize

1.36 MB

Number of Pages

336

eBook ISBN

9780061886645