TY - BOOK ID - 339597 TI - Cupid in early modern literature and culture PY - 2010 SN - 9780521767613 9780511779695 9781107654822 9780511902215 0511902212 052176761X 9780511799068 0511799063 0511850727 1107209110 1282770713 9786612770715 0511901429 0511797664 0511779690 0511900635 1107654823 9781282770713 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - Iconography KW - Epical, mythological and fictitious figures KW - English literature KW - Desire in literature. KW - Cupid (Roman deity) in literature. KW - Love in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Art in literature. KW - Iconoclasm in literature. KW - Iconoclasm KW - Art and literature KW - Idols and images KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Worship KW - Cupid KW - In literature. KW - Cupido KW - Amor KW - Amore KW - Eros KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Cupid (Roman deity)--in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:339597 AB - Cupid became a popular figure in the literary and visual culture of post-Reformation England. He served to articulate and debate the new Protestant theory of desire, inspiring a dark version of love tragedy in which Cupid kills. But he was also implicated in other controversies, as the object of idolatrous, Catholic worship and as an adversary to female rule: Elizabeth I's encounters with Cupid were a crucial feature of her image-construction and changed subtly throughout her reign. Covering a wide variety of material such as paintings, emblems and jewellery, but focusing mainly on poetry and drama, including works by Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Spenser, Kingsley-Smith illuminates the Protestant struggle to categorise and control desire and the ways in which Cupid disrupted this process. An original perspective on early modern desire, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the literature, drama, gender politics and art history of the English Renaissance. ER -