The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature

1. Eros and literature Bradford K. Mudge; 2. Classical antiquity and modern erotic literature Daniel Orrells; 3. Performances of suffering: secular and devotional eros in late medieval writing Sarah Salih; 4. Can a woman rape a man?: rape and the erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis Elizabeth Robertson; 5. The manuscript circulation of erotic poetry in early modern England Ian Moulton; 6. The erotic Renaissance James Grantham Turner; 7. Pornography, procreation, and pleasure in early modern England Sarah Toulalan; 8. Novel pleasure Bradford K. Mudge; 9. Erotic for whom?: when particular bodies matter to romantic sexuality Richard Sha; 10. Emily Dickinson in love (with death) Marianne Noble; 11. Erotic bonds among women in Victorian literature Deborah Lutz; 12. Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer collection, and modernist eroto-bibliography Collette Colligan; 13. Sade, Reage, and transcending the obscene Amy Wyngaard; 14. 'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the intersections of desire David Greven; 15. Dutch gay novels of the 1960s and 1970s Gert Hekma.