"My unwasht Muse": (De-)Konstruktionen der Erotik in der englischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts

by Norbert Lennartz

Overview

In the 17th century a profound change took place in the depiction of the body and the erotic. Whilst the metaphysics of Donne and Crashaw represented theology under the sign of the erotic and simultaneously theologized the corporeal, the Cavaliers had severed these alliances since the 1620’s. Influenced by the invention of the stage figure, Don Juan, poets such as Carew, Suckling and the Earl of Rochester cast the erotic as quantitative greatness, thereby laying the corner stone of the misogynist pornography of later centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783484971295
Publisher:	Max Niemeyer Verlag
Publication date:	12/15/2009
Series:	Buchreihe der Anglia Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	2 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Norbert Lennartz, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.