Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

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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Acknowledgements Sex, Gender, and Sexual Difference Petrarchism and Psychoanalysis Petrarchism in Early Modern England The Petrarchism of Mary Wroth Strategies of Legitimation 1796-1881 Queering the Petrarchan Subject: The Poetry of Rosa Newmarch Edna St Vincent Millay and the Dissident Petrarchan Subject Afterword: Petrarchism Today Works Cited Index