Chapter 1 Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and Romance

Chapter 3 The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 4 Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 5 ‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Chapter 6 Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter 7 Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain

Chapter 8 Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 9 ‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology

Chapter 10 Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State

Chapter 11 Nova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It

Chapter 12 Afterword