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Laura : uncovering gender and genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell

Author: Barbara L Estrin
Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1994.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions.
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Estrin, Barbara L., 1942-
Laura.
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)622862484
Named Person: Thomas Wyatt, Sir; Andrew Marvell; John Donne; Thomas Wyatt, Sir; Thomas Wyatt, Sir; Andrew Marvell; John Donne; John Donne; Andrew Marvell; Francesco Petrarca; Thomas Wyatt
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara L Estrin
ISBN: 0822315009 9780822315001 0822314991 9780822314998
OCLC Number: 30356039
Description: xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: gender performance and genre slippage --
[1.] Petrarch: Inverting the order: Laura as Eve to Petrarch's Adam ; "Like a man who thinks and weeps and writes": Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus --
[2.] Wyatt: Taking bread: Wyatt's revenge in the lyrics and sustenance in the Psalms ; "Liking this": telling Wyatt's feelings --
[3.] Donne: Small change: defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian poetics ; Sylvia transformed: returning Donne's gifts ; "A pregnant bank": contracting and abstracting the "you" in Donne's "A valediction of my name in the window" and "Elegy: change" --
[4.] Marvell: "Busie companies of men": appropriations of female power in "Damon the mower" and "The gallery" ; "Preparing for longer flight": Marvell's nymph and the revenge of silence ; A-mazing and A-musing: after the garden in "Appleton house."
Series Title: Post-contemporary interventions.
Responsibility: Barbara L. Estrin.

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