How to read erotic art

Sexuality and erotic desire were important components of Victorian culture, and the novels of the Victorian era reflect the sexual attitudes of the authors and culture of that peri...

Why is there no "pro-sex" contingency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answe...

This chapter analyzes ancient animal metaphors according to interactive dynamics as well as species. Erotic praise of elite maidens presents them as proud racehorses and should be ...

Abstract Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to in...

In his famous courtroom definition of ‘the love that dare not speak its name’, Wilde pays tribute to Plato and ‘that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect’. Bu...

This chapter consider the emergence of novelistic texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries in light of the earlier efflorescence of prose fiction from classical antiqu...

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger explores the characters of Luke-Acts in order to situate them in the Jewish world to which they belong. Through a close reading of the Greek text, she argue...