| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis. By David R. Shumway. (New York: New York University Press, 2003. xiv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-9830-6. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8147-9831-4.)
Annie Hall (1977), Sex and the City (1998–2004), and When Harry Met Sally (1989) are versions of the romantic genre David R. Shumway dubs the relationship story. He argues that a modern discourse of intimacy emerged in the twentieth century to compete with an older discourse of romance but has not fully displaced it. The intimacy ideal shifted the focus of the earlier discourse from the chase to the relationship and focused on couple communication and candor rather than mystery.	1
Part history of romantic love and literary criticism and part call to reform, Shumway's work discusses the history of romantic fiction, drawing on a somewhat idiosyncratic selection of popular films, novels, advice literature, and even songs from the twentieth century. While the discourse of romance dated back to medieval times, it was only in the nineteenth century that "romance became grafted onto marriage," and it was an uneasy match (p. 21).	. . .

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