Introduction; Part I. Approaching the literature of love: 1. Plato; 2. The Bible; 3. The Old Testament; 4. The New Testament; 5. Ovid; 6. Courtly Love; 7. Chaucer; 8. Petracrch; 9. Assignments; Part II. Approaching the texts: 10. The geography of love; 11. Food and desire; 12. Love as a madness; 13. Demon lovers; 14. Love as a sickness; 15. Transgressive love; 16. Unrequited love; 17. The proposal; 18. The wedding; 19. The honeymoon; 20. Married love; 21. Love and loss; 22. Love and betrayal; 23. Love, absence and death; 24. The love elegy; Part III. Texts and extracts: 25. William Cartright, 'No Platonique Love'; 26. John Donne, 'Negative Love'; 27. John Milton, from Paradise Lost; 28. The Bible: King James Version, from The Song of Songs; 29. Edmund Spenser, from 'Epithalamion'; 30. Alexander Pope, from Eloisa to Abelard; 31. Robert Herrick, 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'; 32. W. H. Auden, 'Alone'; 33. Geoffrey Chaucer, from Troilus and Criseyde; 34. Andreas Capellanus, from De Arte Honesti Amandi; 35. Lady Mary Wroth, from Pampilia to Amphilanthus; 36. E.E. Cummings, 'somewhere I have never travelled, glady beyond'; 37. William Shakespeare, from Othello; 38. Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights; 39. Sir Philip Sidney, from Astrophel and Stella; 40. D. H. Lawrence, from The Rainbow; 41. Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earnest; 42. Evelyn Waugh, from Vile Bodies; 43. Edward Albee, from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; 44. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese; 45. Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady; 46. Vicki Feaver, 'The Crack'; 47. Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God; 48. Graham Greene, from Brighton Rock; 49. Thomas Hardy, 'The Going'; Part IV. Critical approaches: 50. Reading Brideshead Revisited; 51. Reading D.H. Lawrence; 52. Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved; Part V. How to write about the literature of love: 53. Comparing poems; 54. Responding to prose; 55. Comparing across genres; 56. Assignments; Resources: Further reading; Websites and media resources; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgements.
