5. The Petrarchan Love Convention: Romance at Odds with Sexual Desire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. ‘Will’ and the Dark Side of Sexual Desire 13
6. 2. Male Lust, Power and Rape 38
7. 3. Lustful Women and Male Fantasies of Female Desire 66
8. 4. Romantic Love and Sexual Desire: The Fickleness of Fancy, Eyes and Love’s Mind 97
9. 5. The Petrarchan Love Convention: Romance at Odds with Sexual Desire 124
10. 6. Sex, Love and Paradigms of Marriage 155
11. 7. Homoerotic Desire and Same-Sex Bonding: Challenges to Heterosexual Partnership? 181
12. 8. ‘The Buildings of My Fancy’: Family Ties and Sexual Desire 216
13. Works Cited 252
14. Index 266