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The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative : conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell / / Dorothy Stephens [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Stephens Dorothy Visualizza persona
Titolo: The limits of eroticism in post-Petrarchan narrative : conditional pleasure from Spenser to Marvell / / Dorothy Stephens [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 821/.03093538
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-241) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favour only those theories is to risk ignoring productive exchanges between 'masculine' and 'feminine' in Renaissance culture. 'Appropriation' is too simple a term to describe these exchanges - as when Petrarchan lovers flirt dangerously with potentially destructive femininity. Spenser revises this Petrarchan phenomenon, constructing flirtations whose participants are figures of speech, readers or narrative voices. His plots allow such exchanges to occur only through conditional speech, but this very conditionality powerfully shapes his work. Seventeenth-century works - including a comedy by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, and Upon Appleton House by Andrew Marvell - suggest that the civil war and the upsurge of female writers necessitated a reformulation of conditional erotics.
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ISBN: 0-521-03469-8
1-280-16186-8
0-511-11705-1
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778871503321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 29.