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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative

Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to favor 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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Title of ebook: The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative
ISBN: 9780511035722
parent-ISBN: 9780521630641
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1777 kb
Pages: 266
Published: 11-1994
Released online for download: 11-25-1994
Author of eBook: Stephens, Dorothy

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