Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism

by Mary B. Moore

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism proposes that we attend to the ways that women poets from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries have both echoed and transformed the literary and erotic conventions that strongly influenced their fates as women, wives, and lovers.

Mary B. Moore analyzes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323079
• ISBN13: 9780809323074
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"