Pain and Pleasure: Fictions of Erotic Violence from Ovid to Spenser.

Author / Editor
Liendo, Elizabeth.

Title
Pain and Pleasure: Fictions of Erotic Violence from Ovid to Spenser.

Published
Ph.D. dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2019). Item not seen. Abstract available at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16973eah27 (accessed December 1, 2021).

Description
Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing “a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Ronsard to Spenser.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion