| The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell Contributor(s): Stephens, Dorothy (Author), Orgel, Stephen (Editor), Barton, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521630649 ISBN-13: 9780521630641 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 821.030 |
| LCCN: 97052750 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 language and situations, and that the eroticism the reader feels often belies a narrator's insistence that it is illusory. She goes on to look at responses to Spenser's eroticism among male and female writers in the seventeenth century. |