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Eric Jager.
The Tempter’s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature.
Published Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1993.
ISBN 0801427533;
ISBN-13 9780801427534.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 157x234x28mm.
Page count: xvii,336pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy has some mild scuffs and marks, a little wear on its edges and corners; a little marking and foxing on the page edges, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $33.50]
Weight without packaging: 663g.

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Contents:
1. Augustine’s garden: School of Paradise; Genesis of hermeneutics; Garden of eloquence;
2. The medieval garden: The Old English epic of the fall [Genesis B]; The seducer & the daughter of Eve; The carnal letter in Chaucer’s earthly Paradise [Merchant’s Tale];
Epilogue — signs of the fall, from the Middle Ages to postmodernism.

Illustrations: 7, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Index: yes

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