English Faculty Publications

Title

The Nymph’s Reply Nine Month’s Later: Pregnancy and the Poetry of Seduction

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2006

Publication Source

"And Never Know the Joy”: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry

Abstract

“And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.

Inclusive pages

105-122

ISBN/ISSN

9789042020757

Document Version

Postprint

Comments

Permission documentation on file.

Publisher

Brill | Rodopi Press

Volume

36

Place of Publication

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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