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Desire and gender in the sonnet tradition

This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.

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Main Authors: Distiller, Natasha
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: from c 1900
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230583832
Summary: This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 232 p.
ISBN: 9780230535633
9780230583832 :
0230583830 :
CLC: I106.2
Contents: Acknowledgements Sex, Gender, and Sexual Difference Petrarchism and Psychoanalysis Petrarchism in Early Modern England The Petrarchism of Mary Wroth Strategies of Legitimation 1796-1881 Queering the Petrarchan Subject: The Poetry of Rosa Newmarch Edna St Vincent Millay and the Dissident Petrarchan Subject Afterword: Petrarchism Today Works Cited Index.

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