Of Love and Other Passions

Guiomar Duenas-Vargas is a professor of history at the University of Memphis, USA. Her earlier books, like the Spanish edition of this one, were published in Colombia, USA.

a oe[This book] offers a new approach to the history of Colombia, one that highlights the importance of affect and subjectivity to understanding not only marriage and gender but also Colombian state and nation formation. Historians have been slow to evaluate the impact of broad movements like romanticism and modernism, leaving these to their colleagues in literature. This book shows how these ways of framing onea (TM)s place in the world might be central not only to the private sphere but also to broader changes in politics and the nation.a ?a "William French, coeditor of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence "Duenas-Vargas makes good use of letters (and diaries) to create a rich tapestry of the lives and loves of elite families. . . . [She] makes fascinating connections between internal, personal emotions and political culture." --Latin American Research Review