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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative - Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell (Paperback, New ed)
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The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative - Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Although theories of exploitation and subversion have radically
changed our understanding of gender in Renaissance literature, to
favour 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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