Heaven and the Flesh - Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo (Hardcover, New)

Do the gods make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritual salvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven and the Flesh, Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions of poets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyze the work not only of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton and Michelangelo, but also of lesser known figures such as John Gore and Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations of philosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographic poems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with full seriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Clive Hart • Kay Gilliland Stevenson
Dimensions:	256 x 181 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-49571-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	0-521-49571-7
Barcode:	9780521495714

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