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Author Stephens, Dorothy

Title The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative : conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell / Dorothy Stephens
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 29
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 29.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index
Notes English
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Subject Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Influence
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Technique
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 -- Technique
SUBJECT Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 fast
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 fast
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374 gnd
Petrarca, Francesco. swd
Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism
Erotic poetry, English -- History and criticism
Feminism and literature -- England -- History
English poetry -- Italian influences.
Renaissance -- England
Sex in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry -- Early modern
English poetry -- Italian influences
Erotic poetry, English
Feminism and literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Narrative poetry, English
Renaissance
Sex in literature
Technique
Englisch
Rezeption
Lyrik
Erotik Motiv
Erotiek.
Gedichten.
Engels.
England
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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Other Titles Post-Petrarchan narrative