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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... Experience of Metaphor By Wendy Barker The Literary Existence of Germaine de Staël By Charlotte Hogsett Margaret Atwood Vision and Forms Edited by Kathryn VanSpanckeren and Jan Garden Castro He Knew She Was Right The Independent Woman ...
... experienced tacit resis- tance to amatory poetry . The relative paucity of canonical love son- net sequences by women during the Victorian period , and even exceptions such as Barrett Browning and Rossetti , demonstrate that women's ...
... experiences both pain and joy , life and death , is fiery and icy , tearful and joyous , enslaved though free ; he is wounded by the beloved's eye darts ; her image resides in his heart ; he is wan and " sicklied o'er by the pale cast ...
... experiences of agency and loss of potency , unity and fragmentation , knowledge and error — may also have enhanced the mode's appeal or accessi- bility to early modern women because they must have experienced their own subjectivity as ...
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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 |