Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and PetrarchismSIU Press, 2000 - 290 páginas "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism proposes that we attend to the ways that women poets from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries have both echoed and transformed the literary and erotic conventions that strongly influenced their fates as women, wives, and lovers. Mary B. Moore analyzes and provides context for love sonnet sequences by Italian, French, English, and American women poets in the light of current knowledge concerning attitudes towards women at the time they wrote. Through close readings of the poems combined with theory and criticism about constructs of women, historical events, and biographical contexts, Moore reveals patterns of revision among women poets that shed further light on the poets themselves, on Petrarchism as a convention, and on ideas about women. She focuses on Petrarchan sonnet sequences by women because the poems serve both as works of art and as documents that illuminate the range and limitations of female roles as erotic subjects (agents of speech, action, knowledge, and desire) as well as their more usual roles as erotic objects. 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 Labé, Lady Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. |
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... desire ) as well as women's more usual roles as erotic objects . Petrarchism , Moore notes , is a tradi- tion that both invites and impedes imitation on the part of women love poets . Petrarch created a poetic speaker through ambiguity ...
... Desire in literature . 3. Petrarchism . I. Title . II . Series . PN1514.M58 2000 809.1'42099287 - dc21 ISBN 0-8093-2307-9 ( alk . paper ) 99-36812 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American ...
... Desire The Complication of Subjectivity ix xi I 27 Petrarch and the Guise of Blindness 3 Body of Light , Body of Matter 58 Self - Reference as Self - Modeling in Gaspara Stampa 4 Eating Desire and Embracing Error Louise Labé and the ...
... desire for voice inspires and informs women's desiring voices — including my own . I thank Marshall University's Graduate School and its College of Liberal Arts for funding several one - course releases and a sum- mer research grant ...
... Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis . All rights reserved . Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett , literary executor . Desiring Voices I Introduction Voicing Desire To me , faire Acknowledgments xiii.
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The Complication of Subjectivity | 27 |
Body of Light Body of Matter | 58 |
Eating Desire and Embracing Error | 94 |
The Labyrinth of Style | 125 |
Charlotte Smith and the Echoes of Melancholy | 151 |
A Fitting Form | 194 |
Conclusion | 230 |
Notes | 245 |
Works Cited and Consulted | 271 |