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The Politics of Love - by Natalie Cornett (Hardcover)

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  • The Politics of Love describes the history of Polish intellectual and cultural life, which covertly flourished at home and abroad despite imperial repression between Poland's two great uprisings in 1830-1831 and 1863.
  • About the Author: Natalie Cornett is a historian of modern East Central Europe who specializes in women's and gender history in the long nineteenth century.
  • 234 Pages
  • History, Social History

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About the Book



"Considers Polish nationalism and the independence movement from the novel perspective of the Enthusiasts, a group that challenged not only comparative, transnational histories of women and gender but also dominant Polish national narratives that have either ignored or appropriated women's political involvement"--



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The Politics of Love describes the history of Polish intellectual and cultural life, which covertly flourished at home and abroad despite imperial repression between Poland's two great uprisings in 1830-1831 and 1863. Natalie Cornett focuses her study on a group of educated women known as the "Enthusiasts" (Entuzjastki), who were united by their commitment to live as independent women despite the intense nationalism that put the nation above all--including class and gender.

The Enthusiasts, led by Narcyza Żmichowska, emphasized sororal love and homosocial bonding in their program to contest both an oppressive imperial regime and constrictive gender roles. Their affective relationships with each other and their decision to remain unmarried, childless, or divorced violated accepted conventions and the patriotic emphasis on the Polish family. By drawing on a large corpus of their letters, diaries, police files, and published works, Cornett describes the Enthusiast movement from its emergence in the 1840s to the death of Narcyza Żmichowska, in 1876.

The Politics of Love describes how the Polish intelligentsia was so monomaniacally focused on the struggle for independence that discussion of other social questions was dismissed as "unpatriotic." Its dismissal of the Enthusiasts as socially deviant, despite the Enthusiasts' support for the national cause, reveals the limitations of nationalism as a binding agent and demonstrates how Polish women appropriated and contributed ideas about women's emancipation, nationalism, and religion in a globalizing era of increasing literacy and transnational exchange.



About the Author



Natalie Cornett is a historian of modern East Central Europe who specializes in women's and gender history in the long nineteenth century. She received her PhD from Brandeis University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .69 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.14 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Social History
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 234
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Natalie Cornett
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 2024
TCIN: 93135751
UPC: 9781501776649
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-3907
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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