Love and the Politics of Intimacy

Stanislava Dikova is MHRA Research Associate in Humanities at Keele University, UK, and Visiting Fellow in Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at University of Essex, UK. Wendy McMahon is Senior Lecturer in American Studies (Literatures and Cultures) at University of East Anglia, UK. Jordan Savage is Lecturer in United States Literature at University of Essex, UK.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Stanislava Dikova, University of Essex, UK; Wendy McMahon, University of East Anglia, UK; and Jordan Savage, University of Essex, UK
Part 1: Love and communities
1. ‘Love is a battle, love is a war’: James Baldwin’s use of love to represent race, gender and sexuality in segregated America
Daniele Nunziata, University of Oxford, UK
2. Liberating the Victorian politics of love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister
Vicky Panossian and Salma Yassine, Central European University, Austria
3. The lover and the tribe
Ian Davidson, University College Dublin, Ireland
4. A love letter to white friends
Deya Mukherjee, Independent Scholar, UK
Part 2: Intimate bodies
5. The sharper end of love: When sex is painful, how is intimate love navigated? Reflections from a qualitative study in England and France
Hannah Loret, Nottingham Trent University, UK
6. Kathy Acker’s voice in Blood and Guts in High School and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘desiring-machines’
Gemma Curto, University of Sheffield, UK
7. Digital love: Love through the screen/of the screen
Daniel O’Brien, University of Essex, UK
8. #BlackLove and dating sites: A South African perspective of cyber-love and cyber-ethics during Covid-19
Adelina Mbinjama, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Part 3: Love’s boundaries
9. Imploding fireworks: Love and self-knowledge in the contemporary Italian sentimental novel
Francesca Pierini, University of Basel, Switzerland
10. Lovespeak, love novels and the onset of modernity
Gary Kelly, University of Alberta, Canada
11. Love as theoretical object in Marguerite Duras’s writings
Crisia Constantine, Griffith University, Australia
12. Love without object
Lauren Edwards, York University, Canada
13. Post-humanism and the road to castle Frankisstein
Lawrence Quill, San Jose State University, USA
Index