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    The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction From Ovid to the Romance of the Rose » Read Now

    by Peter L. Allen. 190 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...o-8122-3188-o 1. Courtly love in literature . 2. Ovid, 43...Rose show that, in medieval literature, love and fiction are intertwined...fiction. He showed that love, at...
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    Romantic Conventions » Read Now

    by Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Anne K. Kaler. 195 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Not Wisely but Too Well: Shakespeare's Love Tragedies » Read Now

    by Franklin M. Dickey. 208 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...criticism than literature, show clearly...of using love as a tragic...1594 in Allan H...Elizabethan literature. Thus Spenser...of Despair in Book I of...frenzy of love for...
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    Erotic Love in Literature: From Medieval Legend to Romantic Illusion » Read Now

    by Anne Callahan, Donald Furber. 205 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "Furber and Callahan examine in-depth the element of erotic love in some of the works of about a dozen authors over a span of several centuries. They identify an interesting element of these works and interpret the works in a persuasive way."—CHOICE
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    The Loving Subject: Desire, Eloquence, and Power in Romanesque France » Read Now

    by Gerald A. Bond. 276 pgs.

    ...0-8122-3322-0 alk. paper 1. France -- Civilization -- 1000-1328. 2. Personality. 3. Secularism -- France. 4. Love in literature. 5. Bayeux tapestry -- Themes, motives. I...
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    Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry » Read Now

    by Theresa Tinkle. 298 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book establishes the range of meanings bestowed on the love deities through the later Middle Ages, and draws on feminist and cultural theories to offer new models for interpreting both academic Latin discourses and vernacular poetry.
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    Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin » Read Now

    by John W. Beer. 335 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    These studies are connected by common underlying themes: the sense of Providence, the growing awareness of its loss in the nineteenth century and the pressure on the ideal of Romantic love as that came increasingly to be treated as a substitute. Other questions are raised. Were Wordsworth's `Lucy'...
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    The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 » Read Now

    by Bert Bender. 440 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...in literature. 10. Courtship in literature. 11. Love in literature. 12. Sex in literature. I. Title. PS374.L6B46...Also Rises . 1871-1926 The critique of sexual love in...
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    Love and Death in the American Novel » Read Now

    by Leslie A. Fiedler. 512 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...very concept of literature and the theme of love were re-born together in the West at...the theme of "love" in so simple a sense...in the heroic literature of the...

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