Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition
ISBN: 9780230583832
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;

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.


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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