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Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell  
Author: Barbara L. Estrin
ISBN: 0822315009
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review

Booknews, Inc.
In emphasizing the resignifying moments within the reigning discourse of love, this study acknowledges the tyranny to women that most Petrarchan poems impose. But it also searches out "alternative domains of cultural intelligibility" (Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990) in some Petrarchan poems to ask why Petrarch, Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell locate their questions about sexuality, society, and poetry in the woman they imagine for the construct. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.




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

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

In emphasizing the resignifying moments within the reigning discourse of love, this study acknowledges the tyranny to women that most Petrarchan poems impose. But it also searches out of cultural intelligibility in some Petrarchan poems to ask why Petrarch, Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell locate their questions about sexuality, society, and poetry in the woman they imagine for the construct. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Choice

This bold and provocative study presents a systematic and wholesale revaluation of Petrarch's love poetry and of the movement called Petrarchism, especially with reference to selected lyric poems in 16th- and 17th-century England. . . . Rarely has the alignment between postmodern theory and textual analysis been so well enacted. . . Very highly recommended.

Renaissance Quarterly

Estrin often demonstrates beautifully how lyric subjectivity grapples with questions of gender. . . . Laura contributes vividly to the current project of examining our assumptions about the representations of women in lyric poetry; for this reason, and for its generous, intelligent readings of poems, the book will prove valuable to scholars of gender studies, genre studies, and English and continental early modern poetry.

Early Modern Literary Studies

[T]he intellectual joy and energy with which Estrin leaps into her subject opens this text to its reader. It is a complex book, deeply infused with a sense of purpose: nothing less than the re-visioning . . . of the Petrarchan tradition. As such, it is an important, perhaps essential, piece of scholarship in the current reassessment of Renaissance Petrarchism.

Studies in English Literature

In its most original achievement . . . Estrin's book preempts feminist narratives about the construction of the woman by the male poet, suggesting instead how the male poet is constructed by the woman who is 'always already' part of his identity. . . . This is an argument whose import lies deeply in the realm of the imaginary and really concerns the poet's "muse."Read all 6 "From The Critics" >

     



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