The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative : conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell / Dorothy Stephens.

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Stephens, Dorothy

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 29.Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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0511004923
9780511004926
0511035721
9780511035722
0511050968
9780511050961
0511117051
9780511117053
9780521630641
0521630649
9780511484025
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0511150024
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Other title:

Post-Petrarchan narrative

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative.DDC classification:

821/.03093538 21

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PR539.N3 S74 1998eb

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18.05

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Contents:

Spenser. Into other arms: Amoret's evasion ; "Newes of devils": feminine sprights in masculine minds ; Monstrous intimacy and arrested developments ; Narrative flirtations -- Seventeenth-century refigurations. "Who can those vast imaginations feed?": The concealed fancies and the price of hunger ; Caught in the act at Nun Appleton.

Summary: 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 a new form of eroticism to which later writers responded.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index.

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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 a new form of eroticism to which later writers responded.

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