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Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Sarah M. Dunnigan

    1. Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Amorous Histories — from Marian to Jacobean Eros

    1. Introduction: Amorous Histories — from Marian to Jacobean Eros

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 1-12

  4. The Jacobean Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Fables of Eros: James VI and the Revelation of Desire

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 77-104

    3. Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart and the Eroticisation of the Courtly

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 105-124

    4. Love’s Altar: Alexander Montgomerie and the Erotics of Representation

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 125-148

    5. Heretical Love-Words: The Poetry of William Fowler

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 149-163

    6. Conclusion

      • Sarah M. Dunnigan
      Pages 165-169

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 171-219
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About this book

Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, this is the first study to link together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures, presenting a relatively unknown body of writing, newly theorized and contextualized. It argues that in this period erotic poetry can only be considered in relation to the figure of the monarch, and that the formation of elite lyric culture takes place under the shaping influence of desire for, and against, the sovereign, and her or his 'passional' and symbolic powers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Sarah M. Dunnigan

About the author

SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on early modern literature, women's writing, and on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theory.

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