Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation
  • The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of Women's Love Poetry
  • Writing to Live: Pedagogical Poetics in Isabella Whitney and Catherine des Roches
  • The Poetics of Group Identity: Self-Commemoration through Dialogue in Pernette du Guillet and Tullia d'Aragona
  • Feminine Pastoral as Heroic Martyrdom: Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth
  • Eros Equalized: Literary Cross-Dressing and the Defense of Women in Louise Labe and Veronica Franco.