Jane Kingsley-Smith

Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767613
• ISBN-10: 052176761X
• Artikelnr.: 29985239

Autorenporträt

Jane Kingsley-Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Roehampton University and is a regular guest lecturer at Shakespeare's Globe. She is the author of Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (2003) and has also published on a range of topics including representations of Shakespeare in popular cinema, Elizabethan love tragedy and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

Inhaltsangabe

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?