The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell
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- Author: Dorothy Stephens, University of Arkansas
- Date Published: December 2006
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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.
Read more- Exciting readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry and prose
- Illuminating theories of post-Petrarchan eroticism
- Revealing insights into gender relations in Renaissance England
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"Stephens handles Spenser's famously intricate language with precision and uncommon insight." Choice
See more reviews"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
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- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521034692
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.394kg
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Spenser:
1. Into other arms: Amoret's evasion
2. 'Newes of devils': feminine sprights in masculine minds
3. Monstrous intimacy and arrested developments
4. Narrative flirtations
Part II. Seventeenth-Century Refigurations:
5. 'Who can those vast imaginations feed?': The Concealed Fancies and the price of hunger
6. Caught in the act at Nun Appleton
Afterword
Notes
Works cited
Index.
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