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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... sense constituted out of arguments ad hominem . Not only have examinations of literary history tended to address themselves " to the man " —that is , to the identity of what was presumed to be the man of letters who created our cul ...
... 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.3 Despite ...
... sense in which I use the term subjectivity throughout this study.14 Petrarch complicates his speaker's subjectivity from the poems ' be- ginning moral and epistemological errors undermine self - knowl- edge ; ambiguity makes meaning ...
... of my assumptions and approaches to the texts is in order , then . This study is , in a sense , empirical ; for I sought to and did dis- cover patterns ( an assertion that reveals the temporal difficulties Introduction 13.
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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 |