Love’s Object, or, Unrequitable Love: Reflections on the literature of Passion between Rousseau and Percy Shelley

This discussion of the literature of unrequited love deals with the elusiveness of love’s object in the world, and asks whether that elusiveness may be intrinsic to the passion. If love is dependent upon the imagination, this implies vulnerability to disappointment or unappeasable longing: but it al...

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Main Author: Fred Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) 2023-11-01
Series:Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna
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Online Access:https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFIV/article/view/38675