Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death

Alberto Castelli is a writer and Professor of Humanities at Hainan University, China. He has published widely on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. He is the author of “Perspectives on Asia: is China Kitsch?” (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel” (University of Toronto Quarterly, 2023). Most recently Castelli's publications include: “Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations” (Vernon Press, 2023) and “The Labyrinth of Love A Tale of Latin American Romance” (Routledge, 2024).

• Acknowledgments.- List of Abbreviations.- Preface.- A Love that Kills: The Idiot.- Isabel Archer: A Case for Female Masochist Tendencies.- Romantic Agony: Young Werther and Jacopo Ortis.- Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel.- Women of Modernism.- The Love Song of the Underground Men.- The Unbearable Lightness of Providence.- Orphans of Love.- Afterword.- Endnotes.- Biography.- Index.