Wise Virgin (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: London, Cambridge, and Wiltshire
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Blindness or blind persons, Virginity or virgins, Religion, Writing, 1980’s, Libraries or librarians, England or English people, London
- Locales: London, England, Wiltshire, England, Cambridge, England
Characters Discussed
Giles Fox, a blind scholar and librarian, forty-eight years old. His life already is dictated by habit: Every day he wears a gray suit, white shirt, and silk blue tie, and each dinner is a variation of cold meat, noodles, olives, and fresh fruit. He is obsessed by A Tretis of Loue Heuenliche, a medieval tract on virginity, and labors to produce the definitive edition of the text. Ironically, the content of the discourse concerns spiritual love, but by focusing solely on philology and linguistics, Giles fails to acknowledge the work’s applicability...
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