Description: Originally published under title: Storie d'amore e d'Europa.
Brief description:
Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York. She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).
Review Quotes:
"...a rich, highly original, and innovative piece of work which curiously achieves a new way of understanding and analyzing trends in European history... Passerini has produced a book which will be of interest to a wide range of historians interested in culture, literature, society, and gender as well as in the history of emotions." - Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire
"The stories [as told by the author] are extremely interesting and illuminating, covering a quite extraordinary range of material (the scholarly work here alone is quite outstanding) from opera to publishing history to letters to film and fiction as well as archives... There are lots of interesting reflections on, for example, Orientalism and Islam, as well as politics, which provide food for thought in today's world...The volume is very well written and extremely clear, and the footnotes are often as important as the main text." - John Foot, University College London