Waiting for Godiva

About the Book

The history of love is the story of civilization--the account of the most universal, most irresistible, and most expedient activity of men and women. Love between the sexes has been marked by irrationality, dissimulation, anxiety, shame, frustration, disgust, and suffering. Yet the search for fulfillment through love is not only the basis of our earthly happiness but the summit of our biological destiny. The union of man and woman in ecstasy enables us to realize our ultimate purposes--our immortality and the survival of the species. Although the sex drive is related to our most primitive character, love and the literature created around the subject of love is truly the flower of our civilized achievements.

About the Author

Ronald J. Meyers teaches Literature and Writing at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. He also has taught at Pratt Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Temple University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College and, for the Pennsylvania Consortium of International Education, at Oxford University and the University of Pavia. He has delivered and/or published numerous papers on a wide range of topics relating to literature, education, and cultural studies. He enjoys membership in such associations as The New York Academy of Sciences, the Dramatists Guild, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the Global Awareness Society. He is long married, has two married children, all with loving spouses, and five sweet, sprouting grandchildren.