Love Etc.

<p><strong>The look of love . . . through an analytic lens. </strong>Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry - is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. <em>Love Etc.</em> centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to literature and culture. How are our attitudes to love changing in the wake of new technologies and social media; shifting norms around partnering marriage and divorce; and feminist and queer thought? Fifteen short and accessible essays cover a wide range of topics from Tinder to <em>The Bachelor</em> from liking trees to loving aliens from unrequited love to maternal love from polyamory to new stories of female friendship from loving physical books to theorizing love in popular music.</p><p><strong>Contributors</strong>: Carolina Bandinelli University of Warwick * Mette Blok Roskilde University Denmark * Angus Connell Brown * Stephanie Burt Harvard University * Anne-Marie S. Christensen University of Southern Denmark * Jonathan Flatley Wayne State University * Lily Gurton-Wachter Smith College * Timothy Laurie University of Technology Sydney * Hanna Meretoja University of Turku Finland * Kevin Ohi Boston College * John Plotz Brandeis University * Anna Poletti Utrecht University The Netherlands * Jessica Pressman San Diego State University * Biswarup Sen University of Oregon * Hannah Stark University of Tasmania</p>