{"product_id":"laura-9780822314998","title":"Laura","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLaura\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily sustained, compelling, and critically resourceful reading of the lyric Petrarch and three of his major English successors. This book counts as a major revision of the critical discourse of ‘Petrarchanism.’ Estrin not only produces this critique, however; she clinches it with readings so concentrated, well-founded, and fully argued that her successors will have to meet a new standard of proof.\"—Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College\u003cbr\u003e\"Estrin’s readings are intricate and persuasive, and revealing. Her writing, at once deeply poetic and nuanced, is extremely clear. She argues for a kind of fluidity of the poetic subject that allows for gender crossings and transgressions; the resulting exploration of male subjectivity and feminine representations is immensely suggestive and potentially provocative.\"—Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Western Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Note on Editions xiv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Gender Performance and Genre Slippage 1\u003cbr\u003e PETRARCH \u003cbr\u003e Inverting the Order: Laura as Eve to Petrarch's Adam 41\u003cbr\u003e \"Like a Man Who Thinks and Weeps and Writes\": Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus 61\u003cbr\u003e WYATT \u003cbr\u003e Taking Bread: Wyatt's Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms 93\u003cbr\u003e \"Liking This\": Telling Wyatt's Feelings 123\u003cbr\u003e DONNE \u003cbr\u003e Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics 149\u003cbr\u003e Sylvia Transformed: Returning Donne's Gifts 180\u003cbr\u003e \"A Pregnant Bank\": Contracting and Abstracting the \"You\" in Donne's \"A Valediction of My Name in the Window\" and \"Elegy: Change\" 201\u003cbr\u003e MARVELL \u003cbr\u003e \"Busie Companies of Men\": Appropriations of Female Power in \"Damon the Mower\" and \"The Gallery\" 227\u003cbr\u003e \"Preparing for Longer Flight\": Marvell's Nymph and the Revenge of Silence 255\u003cbr\u003e A-Mazing and A-Musing: After the Garden in \"Appleton House\" 278\u003cbr\u003e Musing Afterward 304\u003cbr\u003e Notes 319\u003cbr\u003e Index 341","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406014914903,"sku":"9780822314998","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822314998.jpg?v=1730494248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/laura-9780822314998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}