Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Shelley’s Unknown Eros: Post-Secular Love in Epipsychidion

Whether Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Epipsychidion—a Platonic poem on love addressed to the patriarchally imprisoned Theresa Viviani or “Emily”—receives praise or blame has generally been determined by two focal passages: a secular sermon on free love and a planetary allegorical thinly veiling his own imbroglio. This essay re-reads Shelley’s 1821 work drawing on two recent arguments: Stuart Curran’s ...

The boundaries of Eros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice

GUIDO RUGGIERO, The boundaries ofEros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice, Oxford University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. vii, 223, £25-00. The sexual mores ofVenice have fascinated the English-speaking world since at least the early seventeenth century, when Thomas Coryat discovered the city's courtesans to be "so loose that they are said to open their quivers to every arrow". A high point...

The Renaissance beard: masculinity in early modern England.

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Love and courtship in mid-twentieth-century England

Love and Courtship in Mid-twentieth-century England

The Historical Journal / Volume 50 / Issue 01 / March 2007, pp 173 196 DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X06005966, Published online: 13 February 2007 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0018246X06005966 How to cite this article: CLAIRE LANGHAMER (2007). LOVE AND COURTSHIP IN MID-TWENTIETHCENTURY ENGLAND. The Historical Journal, 50, pp 173-196 doi:10.1017/ S0018246X06005966 Request...