Desiring voices
Subtitle: women sonneteers and Petrarchism
By: Mary B. Moore.
Series: Ad feminam
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Sonnets -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Desire in literature; Women and literature; Petrarchism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.