Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

Distiller, N.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-02-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230535633

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583832

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 226