Ovid's art and the Wife of Bath : the ethics of erotic violence
- Author
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Desmond, Marilynn, 1952-
- Title
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Ovid's art and the Wife of Bath : the ethics of erotic violence / Marilynn Desmond.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Description
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xiii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
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<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2005037802.html
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-199) and index.
- Contents
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- Sexual difference and the ethics of erotic violence
- Ovid's Ars amatoria and the wounds of love
- Dominus/ancilla : epistolary rhetoric and erotic violence in the letters of Abelard and Heloise
- Tote enclose : the Roman de la rose and the heterophallic ethic
- The Vieille daunce : the Wife of Bath and the politics of experience
- The Querelle de la rose : erotic violence and the ethics of reading.
- Subject headings
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Wife of Bath's tale
- Kinsey subjects
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Literature.
Sex in literature--Medieval.
Social conditions--France--Medieval.
Social conditions--England--Medieval.
Sadomasochism.
- ISBN
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0801443792 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801443794 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801473179 (pbk.)
9780801473173 (pbk.)