Heaven and the Flesh
Subtitle: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780521495714
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Sexuality In Literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Special Subjects In Art; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Art; History - General; Erotica; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 17th century; Arts, European; Desire in art; Desire in literature
First sentence: A popular thirteenth-century fabliau tells of a naive virgin who insisted that she would never marry and who also said publicly, to many astonished listeners, that she had an overwhelming desire to fly through the air like Daedalus.