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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
