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Author:

Moore, Mary B., 1945-

Title:

Desiring voices : women sonneteers and Petrarchism / Mary B. Moore.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xiii, 290 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Sonnets--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Desire in literature.
Petrarchism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Ad feminam

ISBN:

9780809323074 (alk. paper)
0809323079 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41834842

LCCN:

99036812

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)