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Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
Ramie Targoff
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Description for Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
Hardcover. For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
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 existence, Targoff seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. Targoff shows that medieval notions of the somewhat flexible boundaries between love in this world and in the ... Read more
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 existence, Targoff seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. Targoff shows that medieval notions of the somewhat flexible boundaries between love in this world and in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226789590
SKU
V9780226789590
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About Ramie Targoff
Ramie Targoff is professor of English and Jehuda Reinharz Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. She is the author of Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion and John Donne, Body and Soul. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Reviews for Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England
"Posthumous Love sets out a compelling case about a large and important point about English Renaissance love literature-one that perhaps should have been obvious for a long time but has never been brought into such sharp focus. The material may be familiar, but Targoff's treatment is genuinely fresh, and her well-researched book traces a clear narrative arc from Petrarch to ... Read more