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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... historical events , and biographi- cal 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 ...
... historical sense — it is unlikely , for example , that the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning knew of the 1621 Petrarchan sonnet sequence by the Jacobean writer Lady Mary Wroth — some evidence of historical connection does exist ...
... historical appeal offer fertile ground for exploring gender in its cultural matrix . The most easily recognized elements of this mode , besides the poetic form of sonnets in sequence , are its conventional topics and images — often of ...
... historical terms — have shown that allusions to a genre's or a mode's conventions evoke ideological as well as literary values derived from the mode's original historical context . Literary modes and conventions thus transmit ideologies ...
... historical breadth and its dependence for logical reasons on ideas about the construction of femininity within and across historical eras invite an easy objection — that I attribute revisionary patterns to gender that may actually ...
Conteúdo
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 |