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Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

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  1. Natasha Distiller
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Sex, Gender, and Sexual Difference

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 1-20

  3. Petrarchism and Psychoanalysis

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 21-42

  4. Petrarchism in Early Modern England

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 43-79

  5. The Petrarchism of Mary Wroth

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 80-97

  6. Strategies of Legitimation 1796–1881

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 98-134

  7. Queering the Petrarchan Subject: The Poetry of Rosa Newmarch

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 135-152

  8. Edna St Vincent Millay and the Dissident Petrarchan Subject

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 153-172

  9. Conclusion: Petrarchism Today

    • Natasha Distiller
    Pages 173-181

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 182-226
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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.

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NATASHA DISTILLER is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is author of South Africa, Shakespeare, and Post-Colonial Culture, and co-editor of Under Construction: 'race' and identity in South Africa Today, and of the journal Social Dynamics. She has also published widely in local and international journals.

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