Esteem Enlivened by Desire The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare

Name: Esteem Enlivened by Desire The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780226312873

ISBN-10: 0226312879

ISBN-13: 9780226312873

Edition: 1992

Authors: Jean H. Hagstrum

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A magisterial book by one of our most distinguished literary historians, Esteem Enlivened by Desire illuminates (and celebrates) the ideal of lasting love from antiquity to the high Renaissance. Love that leads to marriage is a relatively recent "invention," or so critics and historians often say. But in this remarkable survey, Jean H. Hagstrum argues that long-term commitment formed of friendship and passion is one of Western culture's oldest and richest concepts. Hagstrum looks mainly at depictions of love in art and literature, works of the imagination that reflect social reality but also often transcend it to challenge restrictive codes and open up new possibilities for human nature.…

Book details

List price: $62.50
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 534
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction



Early Western Antiquity: The Archaic Periods



Classical Greece



Hellenistic-Roman Culture (I)



Hellenistic-Roman Culture (II)



The Jewish and Christian Testaments: Adam to Paul



The Earliest Christian Centuries: Augustine



The High Middle Ages (I): Intellectual Paradigms and Social Backgrounds



The High Middle Ages (II): Imagining Long-Term Love



The Renaissance (I): Struggles to Unite Eros and Marriage



The Renaissance (II): Literature and the Problematics of Marriage



The Renaissance (III): Shakespeare


Epilogue


Notes


Index