{"product_id":"the-limits-of-eroticism-in-post-petrarchan-narrative-conditional-pleasure-from-spenser-to-marvell-paperback-9780521034692","title":"The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative; Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521034692","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlternative forms of eroticism in post-Petrarchan English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDorothy Stephens (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521034692, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 December 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm, 0.394 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Waht the superficial glance misses...this book delights to reveal.\"   Journal of English and Germanic Philology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Spenser: 1. Into other arms: Amoret's evasion\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Newes of devils': feminine sprights in masculine minds\u003cbr\u003e 3. Monstrous intimacy and arrested developments\u003cbr\u003e 4. Narrative flirtations\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Seventeenth-Century Refigurations: 5. 'Who can those vast imaginations feed?': The Concealed Fancies and the price of hunger\u003cbr\u003e 6. Caught in the act at Nun Appleton\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006234906904,"sku":"9780521034692","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521034692i_20c0f7e3-e95f-4efe-9223-c6e4a676f2db.jpg?v=1694968264","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-limits-of-eroticism-in-post-petrarchan-narrative-conditional-pleasure-from-spenser-to-marvell-paperback-9780521034692","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}