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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Stephens, Dorothy (University of Arkansas)
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Stephens, Dorothy (University of Arkansas)
Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the Petrarchan tradition while flirting with a very different kind of feminine image, creating an alternative form of eroticism to which later writers responded.
264 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 14, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521034692 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 228 × 15 mm · 394 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Barton, Anne |
| Series Editor | Dollimore, Jonathan |
| Series Editor | Garber, Marjorie |
| Series Editor | Goldberg, Jonathan |
| Series Editor | Holland, Peter |
| Series Editor | Mcluskie, Kathleen |
| Series Editor | Orgel, Stephen |
| Series Editor | Vickers, Nancy |