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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, Series Number 29) 1st Edition

by Dorothy Stephens (Author)
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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.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0521034698
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521034692
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    December 14, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.66 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    264 pages
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Editorial Reviews

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"Stephens handles Spenser's famously intricate language with precision and uncommon insight." Choice

"The book is the best and most thorough to date to explore a trope that has recently received a good bit of attention: the feminized imaginative faculty." Theresa M. Krier, Modern Philology

"...Stephens' readings of the Cavendish/Brackley and Marvell texts are characteristically probing, once again demonstrating the exceptional critical acumen that is the hallmark of this fine study." Renaissance Quarterly

"...rich and rewarding..." Spenser Newsletter

"Waht the superficial glance misses...this book delights to reveal." Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Book Description

Alternative forms of eroticism in post-Petrarchan English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (December 14, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521034698
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521034692
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches

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