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Posthumous Love

Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Posthumous Love( )
Author: Targoff, Ramie
ISBN:978-0-226-78959-0
Publication Date:May 2014
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $75.95
Book Description:

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven--Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance brought a startling reversal of this tradition: human love became definitively mortal. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.286 cm
Book Weight:0.538 Kilograms



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