| Description |
xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Sexuality and ascension - finding the way -- 2. The woman on top - Christ, Endymion, Ganymede -- 3. Paradisiacal bosoms -- 4. Imparadised in one another's arms -- 5. Heaven and the flesh -- 6. The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria -- 7. The assumption and its transformations -- 8. Conclusion - Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion -- App. Rochester: 'The Imperfect Enjoyment' -- App. Aphra Behn: 'On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks' -- App. Crashaw: 'Epithalamium' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) and index |
| Subject |
Desire in art.
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Desire in literature.
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Erotica.
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Arts, European -- 17th century.
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Arts, European -- 18th century.
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| Author |
Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
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| LC no. |
95002767 |
| ISBN |
0521495717 hardback |
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