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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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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

Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 21/02/2008
      ISBN13: 9780230535633, 978-0230535633
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of 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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