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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)
The Limits of Eroticism in PostPetrarchan Narrative Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Author: Dorothy Stephens
The poet 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 heightening its dilemmas--flirting with a very different kind of feminine image. Dorothy Stephens shows that this flirtation emerges only in conditional langu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521630641
ISBN-10: 0521630649
Publication Date: 1/13/1999
Pages: 266
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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