£40.85

Cambridge University Press The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism

Price data last checked 22 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£41 today · usual range £38–£43 · best ever £38

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 69 days · 69 data points (no recent data)

Historical
Generating forecast…
£43.00 £37.50 £38.70 £39.90 £41.10 £42.30 £43.50 09 July 2026 26 July 2026 12 August 2026 29 August 2026 15 September 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 69 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
27 days 39 days · current 3 days 0 10 20 29 39 £38 £41 £43 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £41 (39 days, 56.5%)

Price range: £38 - £43

Price levels: 3 different prices over 69 days

Description

In this short introductory book, Professor Forster examines Petrarchism as a European phenomenon transcending national boundaries. He begins with a general survey of themes and conventions, providing, with quotation, something like a repertory of the devices. He then shows in an important historical study how various vernacular literatures were seeking for a renewal of poetic diction at the moment when Petrarchism was available to meet the need. The third study examines specific forms and shows how realism in love-relationships could be accommodated within the tradition. A fourth shows how the literary conventions, applied to England's Virgin queen, could serve political and national ends; and the last shows the devices still being used in Goethe's Faust. This is a learned and engaging book, ranging freely among literatures: Latin, Italian, French, Dutch, English, and German, with translations provided. It gives an introduction to one of the most important and longest-lasting traditions in comparative literary studies.

Product Specifications

Format
paperback
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
12 July 2010
Listed Since
16 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
80% match

The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£77.24 29 Aug 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry: 0 (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
78% match

The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry: 0 (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£77.90 08 Aug 2026
International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation (Continuum Reception Studies)
77% match

International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation (Continuum Reception Studies)

Bloomsbury

£22.79 15 Sep 2026
The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation: 51 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 51)
77% match

The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation: 51 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 51)

Cambridge University Press

£39.99 06 Aug 2026
Chaucer and Petrarch (Chaucer Studies)
77% match

Chaucer and Petrarch (Chaucer Studies)

Boydell Press

£71.45 04 Aug 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain and Spanish America (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
76% match

The Cambridge Introduction to Spanish Poetry: Spain and Spanish America (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£78.00 10 Aug 2026
The Metaphysics of Love: Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton
76% match

The Metaphysics of Love: Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton

Cambridge University Press

£39.99 13 Aug 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
76% match

The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£44.79 07 Aug 2026
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism
76% match

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 5, Romanticism

Cambridge University Press

£42.00 08 Sep 2026
Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures: 54 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 54)
76% match

Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures: 54 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 54)

Cambridge University Press

£35.79 13 Aug 2026
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 8, from Formalism to Poststructuralism
76% match

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 8, from Formalism to Poststructuralism

Cambridge University Press

£39.95 02 Sep 2026
Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline
76% match

Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

Cambridge University Press

£42.49 05 Aug 2026
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
76% match

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

Cambridge University Press

£40.00 05 Aug 2026
Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature: 83 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 83)
76% match

Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature: 83 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 83)

Cambridge University Press

£94.00 29 Aug 2026
Strategies of Failure in the Early Modern Sonnet: Petrarch, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Wroth (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
76% match

Strategies of Failure in the Early Modern Sonnet: Petrarch, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Wroth (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

Routledge

£151.26 07 Aug 2026
German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: The Romantic Ironists and Goethe
76% match

German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: The Romantic Ironists and Goethe

Cambridge University Press

£39.09 05 Aug 2026
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present (Translation/Transnation)
76% match

The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present (Translation/Transnation)

Princeton University Press

£50.00 07 Aug 2026
Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction
76% match

Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

£41.99 10 Aug 2026
Biblical Poetics Before Humanism and Reformation
76% match

Biblical Poetics Before Humanism and Reformation

Cambridge University Press

£41.80 26 Aug 2026
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
76% match

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)

Fordham University Press

£40.90 09 Sep 2026
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
76% match

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£77.24 09 Sep 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
76% match

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£78.00 08 Aug 2026
French Literary Theory Today: A Reader (Msh)
76% match

French Literary Theory Today: A Reader (Msh)

Cambridge University Press

£40.85 08 Aug 2026
The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
76% match

The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press

£83.00 09 Sep 2026