Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism.Moore, Mary B. Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press Southern Illinois University Press (or SIU Press), founded in 1956, is a publisher and part of Southern Illinois University. External link
abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-8093-2307-9. Part of the Ad Feminam ad fem·i·nam adj. Appealing to irrelevant personal considerations concerning women, especially prejudices against them. See Usage Note at ad hominem. : Women and Literature series edited by Sandra M. Gilbert, Mary B. Moore's critical study of Renaissance women poets -- from Italy, France, England, and America -- assesses the influence and transformation of petrarchism in their sonnet sequences. Claiming that Petrarchan poetic subjectivity is the complex and contradictory "technology of gender" which women sonneteers needed to confront, incorporate, and subvert in their amatory am·a·to·ry adj. Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love: an amatory mood; an amatory embrace. [Latin am poems, Moore argues that "women sonneteers could write Petrarchan sequences despite constraints on their erotic writing not only because social and political factors sheltered or encouraged individual women writers but because the mode's particular traits invite female imitation." After an introductory chapter discussing the Petrarchan tradition, this book analyzes the work of such poets as Gaspara Stampa, Louise Labe, Lady Mary Wroth Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1652) was an English poet of the Renaissance. A member of a distinguished English family, Wroth was among the first female British writers to have achieved an enduring reputation. Life Wroth was born in 1587 to Barbara Gamage and Robert Sidney. , and Charlotte Smith. Notes, a works cited and consulted list, and a full index are included. |
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