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 St. Vincent Millay."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, ©2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 290 pages ; 23 cm.
9780809323074, 0809323079
41834842
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 Labé 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. Vinent Millay and Petrarchism
Conclusion: echoes of desiring voices