Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780521767613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 264 str.

Jane Kingsley-Smith

Opis

Kingsley-Smith demonstrates how Cupid played a crucial role in the struggle to categorise and control desire in early modern England.

Recenzje

"It is a pity that it could not be more fully illustrated, since its historical survey includes the fascinating conflation, in the visual arts, of Venus and Cupid with Mary and Jesus."
-- Studies in English Literature

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Cupid, art and idolatry; 2. Cupid, death and tragedy; 3. Cupid, chastity and rebellious women; 4. Cupid and the boy: the pleasure and pain of boy-love; 5. 'Cupid and Psyche': the return of the sacred?