Laura - Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell

"Estrin's readings are intricate and persuasive, and revealing. Her writing, at once deeply poetic and nuanced, is extremely clear. She argues for a kind of fluidity of the poetic subject that allows for gender crossings and transgressions; the resulting exploration of male subjectivity and feminine representations is immensely suggestive and potentially provocative."--Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Western Ontario

Sommario

Acknowledgments xi

Note on Editions xiv

Introduction: Gender Performance and Genre Slippage 1

PETRARCH

Inverting the Order: Laura as Eve to Petrarch's Adam 41

"Like a Man Who Thinks and Weeps and Writes": Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus 61

WYATT

Taking Bread: Wyatt's Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms 93

"Liking This": Telling Wyatt's Feelings 123

DONNE

Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics 149

Sylvia Transformed: Returning Donne's Gifts 180

"A Pregnant Bank": Contracting and Abstracting the "You" in Donne's "A Valediction of My Name in the Window" and "Elegy: Change" 201

MARVELL

"Busie Companies of Men": Appropriations of Female Power in "Damon the Mower" and "The Gallery" 227

"Preparing for Longer Flight": Marvell's Nymph and the Revenge of Silence 255

A-Mazing and A-Musing: After the Garden in "Appleton House" 278

Musing Afterward 304

Notes 319

Index 341

Info autore

Barbara L. Estrin

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Barbara L Estrin, Barbara L. Estrin
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780822314998
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1499-8
• Pagine: 360
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Peso: 635 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Lirica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata