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Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition /

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This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Distiller, Natasha (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 226 pages)
ISBN:9780230583832
DOI:10.1057/9780230583832