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The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative : conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stephens, Dorothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.