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100 1 $aAckerman, Diane.
245 12 $aA natural history of love /$cDiane Ackerman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxiii, 358 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[338]-344) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Love's Vocabulary -- A Long Desire: The History of Love. Egypt. History's Paramour, the Serpent Queen. Art in Ancient Egypt. The Hieroglyphic Love Poems. My Sister, My Bride. A Long Desire. Greece. The World of the Citizen King. The Woman's World. Men Loving Men. The Family. Orpheus and Eurydice. Rome. The Nightmare of Girls. Dido and Aeneas. The Family. Oh, Victoria! Ovid and the Art of Love. Decorating Leisure Time. The Middle Ages. The Birth of Chivalry. Books of Love. Troubadours. The Heart's Rebellion. The Origins of Courtly Love. Abelard and Heloise. Modern Days. The Angel and the Witch. Romeo and Juliet. Bridled Hearts. A Waking Swoon. A Return to Courtly Love. Domestic Paradise. Modern Love -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Ideas About Love. Plato: The Perfect Union. Stendhal Meets the Deep South. Denis de Rougemont: Love and Magic. Marcel Proust and the Erotics of Waiting. Freud: The Origins of Desire. Attachment Theory -- All Fires the Fire: The Nature of Love.
505 0 $aThe Loving Impaired. Disabling Love. The Horror of the Ik. Brain-Stem Sonata: The Neurophysiology of Love. The Evolution of Love. The Plastic Brain. New-Age Sensitive Guys. Adultery. The Battle of the Sexes. The Chemistry of Love. Mother Love, Father Love. The Cuddle Chemical. The Infatuation Chemical. The Attachment Chemical. The Chemistry of Divorce. Aphrodisiacs -- A Necessary Passion: The Erotics of Love. Fire from the Flesh: Why Sex Evolved. The Spice of Life. The Face. The Evolution of the Face. Survival of the Cutest. Facing Our Biases. The Hair. Women and Horses. Men and Cars. The Indy 500. The Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying. Wings over Africa. Men and Mermaids. Sexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion. Kissing. On the Sensuality of Looking -- Passing Strange and Wonderful: Love's Customs. Patterns in Nature. The Courtship. Flesh of My Flesh: The Marriage. Of Cocks and Cunts. Love on the Edge: Adultery, Extravagant Gestures, and Crimes of Passion -- Points for a Compass Rose: Varieties of Love.
505 0 $aAltruism. For the Love of Children: Interplast. For the Love of Strangers: Life and Death in the South Seas. On Religious Love. On Transference Love. On the Love of Pets -- Postscript: The Museum.
520 $aFollowing the triumphant success of her A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman has turned her formidable gifts to that greatest gift of all - the elusive, eternal, and endlessly interesting matter of love. The result is pure Ackerman: a splendid, serious, scientific, poetic, playful, and lyrical "tour d'horizon" of love's many forms and faces.
520 8 $aAckerman draws on a variety of sources, both classical and from her immediate experience. The historical, cultural, religious, and biological roots of love are all explored and illuminated. She gives a fresh new reading to Freud ("mapping the war zones of the heart"), Stendhal (love as fantasy), and Proust ("the erotics of waiting"), and draws lessons from lovers across time.
520 8 $aHer attention then moves to the physical - the chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology associated with love in the brain, mind, and body. She discusses the "evolution of the face," the cuddle, both as caress and as chemical, and the customs of marriage. There are astonishments everywhere. Her distinctive touch, aided by her personal adventures and explorations, enriches our understanding of women and horses, men and mermaids, sex and flying, and other equally enticing subjects.
520 8 $aThe book begins: "Love is the great intangible." Diane Ackerman then proceeds to make it more tangible, traceable, breathable, and ... well, lovable.
650 0 $aLove$vMiscellanea.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107126
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