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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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The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of Personality » Read Now
by John Bayley. 295 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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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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Chivalric Romances: Popular Literature in Medieval England » Read Now
by Lee C. Ramsey. 248 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.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...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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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' poems simply Romantic fictions, or did they mask the memory of an actual youthful attachment? What was the story behind the secret message which F. W. H. Myers left with the Society for Psychical Research, hoping to transmit it after his death? And what was it about the young Cambridge men George Eliot met in 1872 that made them particularly attractive to her? Investigation of these and other matters has led to close scrutiny of various manuscripts in British and American libraries, certain of which, including some letters of George Eliot recently discovered in Cambridge, are reproduced here for the first time.
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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...