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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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About the author
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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Book Title: Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition
Authors: Natasha Distiller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583832
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53563-3Published: 21 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35844-1Published: 21 February 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58383-2Published: 21 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 226
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Gender Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature