Desiring voices : women sonneteers and Petrarchism /

"Combining theory with close reading, Moore enhances the value of many generally neglected poems by women. After a thorough discussion of the Petrarchan sonnet tradition, she analyzes the work of Gaspara Stampa, Louise Labe, Lady Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moore, Mary B., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000.
Series:Ad feminam.
Subjects:
Sonnets > Women authors > History and criticism.
Desire in literature.
Petrarchism.
Sonnets > History and criticism.
Sonnets > Histoire et critique.
Désir dans la littérature.
Pétrarquisme.
Écrits de femmes > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Sonnets
Desire in literature
Petrarchism
Petrarkisme.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Sonnetten.
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ad Feminam: Women and Literature / Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Introduction: Voicing Desire
  • The Complication of Subjectivity: Petrarch and the Guise of Blindness
  • Body of Light, Body of Matter: Self-Reference as Self-Modeling in Gaspara Stampa
  • Eating Desire and Embracing Error: Louise Labe and the Spectacle of Sappho
  • The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism
  • Charlotte Smith and the Echoes of Melancholy
  • Indeterminacy and the Economy of Love in Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • A Fitting Form: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Petrarchism
  • Conclusion: Echoes of Desiring Voices.

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