Love and sex are pre-eminent subjects of Renaissance literature; however, attitudes toward these topics were hardly uniform. The discourses of desire from this period embrace works as dissimilar as sonnets on frustrated love and libertine invitations to lust. Writers both idealised and demystified sex, alternately equating it with religious transcendence or exposing it as a mere bodily itch. The 15 essays in this volume clarify the sexual beliefs and prohibitions of the Renaissance period and examine the manifestations of ...
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Love and sex are pre-eminent subjects of Renaissance literature; however, attitudes toward these topics were hardly uniform. The discourses of desire from this period embrace works as dissimilar as sonnets on frustrated love and libertine invitations to lust. Writers both idealised and demystified sex, alternately equating it with religious transcendence or exposing it as a mere bodily itch. The 15 essays in this volume clarify the sexual beliefs and prohibitions of the Renaissance period and examine the manifestations of those ideas.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 284 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 92044239 Type of material Book Main title Renaissance discourses of desire / edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Published/Created Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1993. Description viii, 284 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0826208851 (alk. paper) LC classification PR535. L7 R45 1993 Related names Summers, Claude J. Pebworth, Ted-Larry. Renaissance Conference (9th: 1990: University of Michigan--Dearborn) LC Subjects English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. Love poetry, English--History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature. Discourse analysis, Literary. Desire in literature. Renaissance--England. Sex in literature. Notes Essays presented at the 9th biennial Renaissance Conference, University of Michigan--Dearborn, Oct. 19-20, 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 821/.309354 Geographic area code e-uk-en