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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.
266 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 26, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521630641 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 264 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 557 g |
| Language | English |