The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer

by Robert R. Edwards

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403964114
• ISBN13: 9781403964113
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"