The Materiality of Love

Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor in literary and cultural studies at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. Michael Gratzke is Professor of German and Comparative Literature as well as Associate Dean for Research at the University of Hull, UK.

Introduction: Love Matters

Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke

Part I: Material Love



1. Love Materialism. Technologies of Feeling in the Post-Material World (An Interview)

Dominic Pettman



2. Love Among Objects: Poetry and Time in Light of the Phenomenology of Values

Jacek Mydla



3. Love is Tender: A Critical Approach to Pansexualism

Julie Reshe

Part II: Affective Connections. Materializing the Amorous



4. Between the Covers: Couples Making Books Together as a Practice of Love

Yvonne Clarke-Salt



5.Overcoming Absence: From Love Letters to Skype

Camilla Skovbjerg Padlam



6.The Matter of Kissing

Anna Malinowska

Part III: Objectified Amour: Representation and Social Practice



7. The Rise and Fall of ‘Emotional Capitalism’: Consumerism and Materialities of Love in Dystopian Works by Thomas Melle, Leif Randt and Gary Shteyngart

Michael Gratzke



8. Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence



Hulya Yagcioglu



9.Organic Love: Reclaiming Solidity Through Nature and Farming

Karolina Lebek



10.(Dis)Affectionate Fetishism: Dispossessed Love in Othello and Late Modernity

Adrian Howe

Part IV: Affectionate Subjectivity



11. Exploring Maternal Affective Investments: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973-79) and the Material Narrative of Love

Justyna Wierzchowska



12. The Amorous Frenzy of Things: Georges Bataille’s Basely Material Love

Michał Krzykawski



13. The Queer Love Life of Photo(n)s

Tomasz Sikora



Part V: Creating Forms of Love



14. Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Ro