The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer (New Middle Ages)

by Robert Edwards and R. Edwards

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This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - writers profoundly influenced by Augustine and Ovid.
  • ISBN10 1349732362
  • ISBN13 9781349732364
  • Publish Date 14 January 2014 (first published 4 January 2008)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
  • Edition 2006 ed.
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 219
  • Language English