Cover Image

The quest for love.

The author turns to the exploration of the relationship between the growth of a sense of reality and the capacity to love. He believes firmly in the civilizing influence of creative art on society, and attempts to show how Chaucer and Shakespeare transcended human imperfection and created a vision o...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holbrook, David, 1923-2011
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University, University of Alabama Press [1965]
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. Love in literature. English literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Similar Items

A literary love affair.
Published: (2014)

Love as human freedom /
by: Kottman, Paul A., 1970-
Published: (2017)

Love /
Published: (2022)

A successful novel must be in want of a sequel : second takes on classics from the Scarlet Letter to Rebecca /
by: Gómez-Galisteo, M. Carmen, 1982-
Published: (2018)

Love /
Published: (2022)

Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages : Niobe's Siblings /
by: Lennartz, Norbert
Published: (2022)

Mobility and corporeality in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Anglophone literature : bodies in motion /
Published: (2021)

Desire : love stories in Western culture /
by: Belsey, Catherine
Published: (1994)

Providence and love : studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin /
by: Beer, John B.
Published: (1998)

Sexualität und Sehnsucht : die Liebe in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur /
by: Sill, Oliver
Published: (2016)

Ties that bind : love in fantasy and science fiction /
Published: (2020)

The transmutation of love and avant-garde poetics /
by: Heuving, Jeanne, 1951-
Published: (2016)

Un amore bellissimo : Leopardi e la felicità /
by: Lo Bue, Salvatore, 1951-
Published: (2016)

Inseparable : desire between women in literature /
by: Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Published: (2011)

Romance's rival : familiar marriage in Victorian fiction /
by: Schaffer, Talia, 1968-
Published: (2016)

The bond of empathy in medieval and early modern literature /
by: Strong, David (Professor of English)
Published: (2022)

Political appetites : food in medieval English romance /
by: Hostetter, Aaron , 1971-
Published: (2017)

Love between men in English literature /
by: Hammond, Paul, 1953-
Published: (1996)

Fisiologia della passione : poesia d'amore e medicina da Cavalcanti a Boccaccio /
by: Tonelli, Natascia
Published: (2015)

Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare : Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida /
Published: (2016)

Islamic postcolonialism : Islam and Muslim identities in four comtemporary British novels /
by: MarzuÌ„q, HÌ£asan SaÊ»iÌ„d Sayyid
Published: (2015)

Reading the road, from Shakespeare's crossways to Bunyan's highways /
Published: (2020)

Political future fiction : speculative and counter-factual politics in Edwardian fiction /
Published: (2013)

The clown's grail : a study of love in its literary expression /
by: Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-1998
Published: (1948)

Some versions of pastoral : and related writings /
by: Empson, William, 1906-1984, et al.
Published: (2020)

The Broadview anthology of British literature /
Published: (2017)

Literature.
Published: (1897)

Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature /
by: Kelleher, Paul
Published: (2015)

The high hill of the muses /
Published: (1955)

The calendar.
Published: (1926)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom.
Published: (1829)

Sibling romance in American fiction, 1835-1900 /
by: VanDette, Emily E.
Published: (2013)

The connecting door /
by: Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981
Published: (1962)

Arthurian writers : a biographical encyclopedia /
Published: (2008)

Shakespeare, love and language /
by: Schalkwyk, David
Published: (2018)

Aspects of transnational and indigenous cultures /
Published: (2014)

Indecent exposure : gender, politics, and obscene comedy in Middle English literature /
by: Sidhu, Nicole Nolan
Published: (2016)

Happily ever after : the romance story in popular culture /
by: Roach, Catherine M., 1965-
Published: (2016)

The Routledge companion to Victorian literature /
Published: (2020)