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Acknowledgements
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ix
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A Note on Sources and Languages
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x
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1.
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Love and Authority: Love Poetry and its Critics
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1
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I.
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The Poetry of Love
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1
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II.
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Love’s Nemesis: Demands for Obedience
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3
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III.
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Love’s Critics: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Authoritarian Approach to Criticism
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10
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IV.
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The Critics: Poetry Is About Poetry
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23
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V.
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The Critics: The Author Is Dead (or Merely Irrelevant)
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29
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2.
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Channeled, Reformulated, and Controlled: Love Poetry from the Song of Songs to Aeneas and Dido
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37
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I.
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Love Poetry and the Critics who Allegorize: The Song of Songs
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37
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II.
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Love Poetry and the Critics who Reduce: Ovid’s Amores and Ars Amatoria
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57
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III.
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Love or Obedience in Virgil: Aeneas and Dido
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77
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IV.
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Love or Obedience in Ovid: Aeneas, Dido, and the Critics who Dismiss
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89
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3.
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Love and its Absences in Late Latin and Greek Poetry
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97
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I.
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Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Latin
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97
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II.
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Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Greek
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113
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4.
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The Troubadours and Fin’amor: Love, Choice, and the Individual
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121
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I.
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Why “Courtly Love” Is Not Love
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121
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II.
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The Troubadours and Their Critics
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136
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III.
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The Troubadours and Love
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165
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5.
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Fin’amor Castrated: Abelard, Heloise, and the Critics who Deny
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195
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6.
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The Albigensian Crusade and the Death of Fin’amor in Medieval French and English Poetry
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215
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I.
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The Death of Fin’amor: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath
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215
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II.
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Post-Fin’amor French Poetry: The Roman de la Rose
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238
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III.
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Post-Fin’amor English Romance: Love of God and Country in Havelok the Dane and King Horn
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275
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IV.
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Post-Fin’amor English Poetry: Mocking “Courtly Love” in Chaucer—the Knight and the Miller
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280
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V.
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Post-Fin’amor English Poetry: Mocking “Auctoritee” in Chaucer—the Wife of Bath
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286
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7.
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The Ladder of Love in Italian Poetry and Prose, and the Reactions of the Sixteenth-Century Sonneteers
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295
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I.
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The Platonic Ladder of Love
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295
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II.
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Post-Fin’amor Italian Poetry: The Sicilian School to Dante and Petrarch
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300
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III.
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Post-Fin’amor Italian Prose: Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier)
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330
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IV.
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The Sixteenth-Century: Post-Fin’amor Transitions in Petrarchan-Influenced Poetry
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336
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8.
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Shakespeare: The Return of Fin’amor
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353
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I.
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The Value of the Individual in the Sonnets
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353
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II.
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Shakespeare’s Plays: Children as Property
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367
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III.
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Love as Resistance: Silvia and Hermia
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378
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IV.
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Love as Resistance: Juliet and the Critics who Disdain
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393
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9.
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Love and its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature
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421
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I.
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Carpe Diem in Life and Marriage: John Donne and the Critics who Distance
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422
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II.
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The Lyricist of Carpe Diem: Robert Herrick and the Critics who Distort
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445
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10.
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Paradise Lost: Love in Eden, and the Critics who Obey
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467
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Epilogue. Belonging to Poetry: A Reparative Reading
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501
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Bibliography
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513
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Index
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553
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