Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath : : The Ethics of Erotic Violence /

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath : : The Ethics of Erotic Violence / / Marilynn Desmond.

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imper...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Desmond, Marilynn,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 38 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: All under Correction
  • 1. Sexual Difference and the Ethics of Erotic Violence
  • 2. Ovid's Ars amatoria and the Wounds of Love
  • 3. Dominus/Ancilla: Epistolary Rhetoric and Erotic Violence in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • 4. Tote Enclose:The Roman de la Rose and the Heterophallic Ethic
  • 5. The Vieille Daunce:The Wife of Bath and the Politics of Experience
  • 6. The Querelle de la Rose: Erotic Violence and the Ethics of Reading
  • Afterword
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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