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Love's wounds: Violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe

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"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"--

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Love's wounds: Violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe, Cynthia Nyree Nazarian

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2016
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