Cupid in early modern literature and culture

✍ Scribed by Jane Kingsley-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 275
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of idolatrous, Catholic worship and as an adversary to female rule: Elizabeth I's encounters with Cupid were a crucial Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Machine generated contents note: 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?
Abstract:

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

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