The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative

Dorothy (University of Arkansas) Stephens

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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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 an alternative form of eroticism to which later writers responded.

ISBN-13
9780521034692
ISBN-10
0521034698
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-12-14
Pages
264
Dimensions
228x151x15
Weight
394