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What if the most romantic day of the year was nothing more than a brilliantly told story? In Valentine's Day Is a Literary Hoax: Romance Was Invented by Poets, Not Saints, Camilla Leo boldly argues that our modern ideas of love weren't handed down by holy figures-but carefully crafted by poets who knew how to turn longing into legend. With wit and sharp cultural insight, Leo traces how medieval verse and courtly love traditions shaped the rituals, symbols, and expectations we now associate with romance. Roses, declarations, candlelight-none are accidental. They are literary inventions that escaped the page and became tradition. Provocative and delightfully irreverent, this book invites readers to question the myths of love while savoring the power of storytelling that made them irresistible in the first place.

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