The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Eros and literature ...1 2 Classical antiquity and modern erotic literature ...17 3 Performances of sufferings : Secular and devotional eros in late medieval writting ...34 4 Can a woman rape a man ? Rape and the erotic in shakespeare`s 5 The manuscript circulation of erotic poetry in early modern england ...64 6 The erotic renaissance ...85 7 Pornography, procreation and pleasure in early modern england ...105 8 Novel pleasure ...123 9 Erotic for Woman ? When particular bodies matter to romantic sexuality ...139 10 Emily dickinson in love (with death) ...155 11 Erotic bonds among women in victorian literature ...175 12 The making of the enfer bibliography : Guillaume apollinaire, eroto bibliography and the enfer collection ....193 13. Sade, Rage and transcending the obscene ...210 14 Nothing could stop it now ! Tennessee williams suddenly last summer, and the intersection of desire ...224 15 Dutch gay novels of the 1950s and 1960s ...238