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Marriage

Dispatches, close readings, and revision notes filed under Marriage.

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Dispatches on Marriage

Paradise Lost, Book IV: Eden, Envy, and the First Night

A guide to Book IV of Paradise Lost: Satan’s “myself am Hell” soliloquy, the description of Eden, Adam and Eve’s hierarchical marriage, the hymn to wedded love, and the first intrusion of evil into Paradise.

16 Nov 20269 min read

Arts & LettersENGL-200A

The Wife of Bath: Experience, Sovereignty, and the Art of the Prologue

A study guide to the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale: the battle between experience and clerical authority, the five husbands, the rape that opens the Tale, and the meaning of female sovereignty in Chaucer’s most performed voice.

4 Nov 202613 min read

Marriage

Dispatches on Marriage

Paradise Lost, Book IV: Eden, Envy, and the First Night

The Wife of Bath: Experience, Sovereignty, and the Art of the Prologue

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