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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty

by Henry T. Finck

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  1. 1Evolution of Romantic Love
  2. 2Cosmic Attraction and Chemical Affinities
  3. 3Flower Love and Beauty
  4. 4Impersonal Affection
  5. 5Personal Affections
  6. 6II — Maternal Love
  7. 7III — Paternal Love
  8. 8IV — Filial Love
  9. 9V — Brotherly and Sisterly Love
  10. 10VI — Friendship
  11. 11VII — Romantic Love
  12. 12Overtones of Romantic Love
  13. 13I — Individual Preference
  14. 14II — Monopoly or Exclusiveness
  15. 15III — Jealousy
  16. 16IV — Coyness
  17. 17V — Gallantry
  18. 18VI — Self-Sacrifice
  19. 19VII — Sympathy
  20. 20VIII — Pride of Conquest and Possession
  21. 21IX — Emotional Hyperbole
  22. 22X — Mixed Moods — Major and Minor
  23. 23XI — Admiration of Personal Beauty
  24. 24Herbert Spencer on Love
  25. 25Love Among Animals
  26. 26Courtship
  27. 27Love-Charms and Love-Calls
  28. 28Love-Dances and Display
  29. 29Love Among Savages
  30. 30Primitive Courtship
  31. 31Individual Preference
  32. 32Personal Beauty and Sexual Selection
  33. 33Jealousy and Polygamy
  34. 34Monopoly and Monogamy
  35. 35Primitive Coyness
  36. 36Can American Negroes Love?
  37. 37History of Love
  38. 38Love in Egypt
  39. 39Ancient Hebrew Love
  40. 40Ancient Aryan Love
  41. 41Hindoo Love Maxims
  42. 42Greek Love
  43. 43Family Affections
  44. 44No Love-Stories
  45. 45Woman’s Position
  46. 46Chaperonage Versus Courtship
  47. 47Plato on Courtship
  48. 48Parental Versus Lovers’ Choice
  49. 49The Hetæræ
  50. 50Platonic Love
  51. 51Sappho and Female Friendship
  52. 52Greek Beauty
  53. 53Cupid’s Arrows
  54. 54Origin of Love
  55. 55Roman Love
  56. 56No Wooing and Choice
  57. 57Virgil, Dryden, and Scott
  58. 58Ovid’s Art of Making Love
  59. 59Birth of Gallantry
  60. 60Mediæval Love
  61. 61Woman’s Lowest Degradation
  62. 62Negation of Feminine Choice
  63. 63Christianity and Love
  64. 64Chivalry — Militant and Comic
  65. 65Chivalry — Poetic
  66. 66Female Culture
  67. 67Personal Beauty
  68. 68Spenser on Love
  69. 69Dante and Shakspere
  70. 70Modern Love
  71. 71Venus, Plutus, and Minerva
  72. 72Leading Motives
  73. 73Modern Coyness
  74. 74Modern Jealousy
  75. 75Monopoly or Exclusiveness
  76. 76Pride and Vanity
  77. 77Special Sympathy
  78. 78Gallantry and Self-Sacrifice
  79. 79Emotional Hyperbole
  80. 80Mixed Moods and Paradoxes
  81. 81Individual Preference
  82. 82Personal Beauty
  83. 83Conjugal Affection and Romantic Love
  84. 84Romance in Conjugal Love
  85. 85Marriages of Reason or Love-Matches?
  86. 86Marriage Hints
  87. 87Old Maids
  88. 88Bachelors
  89. 89Genius and Marriage
  90. 90Genius and Love
  91. 91Genius in Love
  92. 92I — Precocity
  93. 93II — Ardour
  94. 94III — Fickleness
  95. 95IV — Multiplicity
  96. 96V — Fictitiousness
  97. 97Insanity and Love
  98. 98Erotomania, or Real Love-Sickness
  99. 99The Language of Love
  100. 100I — Words
  101. 101Ii.-Facial Expression
  102. 102III — Caresses
  103. 103Kissing — Past, Present, and Future
  104. 104Among Animals
  105. 105Among Savages
  106. 106The Origin of Kissing
  107. 107Ancient Kisses
  108. 108Mediæval Kisses
  109. 109Modern Kisses
  110. 110Love-Kisses
  111. 111How to Kiss
  112. 112How to Win Love
  113. 113Confidence and Boldness
  114. 114Pleasant Associations
  115. 115Perseverance
  116. 116Feigned Indifference
  117. 117Compliments
  118. 118Love-Letters
  119. 119Love-Charms for Women
  120. 120Proposing
  121. 121Diagnosis or Signs of Love
  122. 122How to Cure Love
  123. 123Absence
  124. 124Travel
  125. 125Employment
  126. 126Married Misery
  127. 127Feminine Inferiority
  128. 128Focussing Her Faults
  129. 129Reason Versus Passion
  130. 130Love Versus Love
  131. 131Prognosis or Chances of Recovery
  132. 132Nationality and Love
  133. 133French Love
  134. 134Italian Love
  135. 135Spanish Love
  136. 136German Love
  137. 137English Love
  138. 138American Love
  139. 139Schopenhauer’s Theory of Love
  140. 140Love Is an Illusion
  141. 141Individuals Sacrificed to the Species
  142. 142Sources of Love
  143. 143Four Sources of Beauty
  144. 144II — Crossing
  145. 145III — Romantic Love
  146. 146IV — Mental Refinement
  147. 147Evolution of Taste
  148. 148Non-Æsthetic Ornamentation
  149. 149Personal Beauty as a Fine Art
  150. 150Negative Tests of Beauty
  151. 151Positive Tests of Beauty
  152. 152The Feet
  153. 153Fashionable Ugliness
  154. 154Tests of Beauty
  155. 155A Graceful Gait
  156. 156Evolution of the Great Toe
  157. 157National Differences
  158. 158Beautifying Hygiene
  159. 159Dancing and Grace
  160. 160Dancing and Courtship
  161. 161Evolution of Dance Music
  162. 162The Dance of Love
  163. 163Ballet-Dancing
  164. 164The Lower Limbs
  165. 165Beautifying Exercise
  166. 166Fashionable Ugliness
  167. 167The Crinoline Craze
  168. 168The Waist
  169. 169The Wasp-Waist Mania
  170. 170Corpulence and Leanness
  171. 171The Fashion Fetish Analysed
  172. 172Individualism Versus Fashion
  173. 173Masculine Fashions
  174. 174Chest and Bosom
  175. 175Masculine Beauty
  176. 176Magic Effect of Deep Breathing
  177. 177A Moral Question
  178. 178Neck and Shoulder
  179. 179Arm and Hand
  180. 180Calisthenics and Massage
  181. 181The “Second Face”
  182. 182Finger-Nails
  183. 183Manicure Secrets
  184. 184Jaw, Chin, and Mouth
  185. 185Dimples in the Chin
  186. 186Refined Lips
  187. 187Cosmetic Hints
  188. 188The Cheeks
  189. 189Colour and Blushes
  190. 190The Ears
  191. 191Cosmetics and Fashion
  192. 192Physiognomic Vagaries
  193. 193Noise and Civilisation
  194. 194A Musical Voice
  195. 195The Nose
  196. 196Evolution of the Nose
  197. 197Greek and Hebrew Noses
  198. 198Fashion and Cosmetic Surgery
  199. 199Nose-Breathing and Health
  200. 200Cosmetic Value of Odours
  201. 201The Forehead
  202. 202Fashionable Deformity
  203. 203Wrinkles
  204. 204The Complexion
  205. 205Cosmetic Hints
  206. 206Freckles and Sunshine
  207. 207The Eyes
  208. 208Colour
  209. 209Lustre
  210. 210Form
  211. 211Expression
  212. 212Cosmetic Hints
  213. 213The Hair
  214. 214Beards and Moustaches
  215. 215Baldness and Depilatories
  216. 216Brunette and Blonde — Blonde Versus Brunette
  217. 217Brunette Versus Blonde
  218. 218Why Cupid Favours Brunettes
  219. 219Nationality and Beauty
  220. 220French Beauty
  221. 221Italian Beauty
  222. 222Spanish Beauty
  223. 223German and Austrian Beauty
  224. 224English Beauty
  225. 225American Beauty

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