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

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Label

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

Title remainder

uncovering gender and genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell

Statement of responsibility

Barbara L. Estrin

Creator

• Estrin, Barbara L., 1942-
• Estrin, Barbara L., 1942-

Author

• Estrin, Barbara L., 1942-
• Estrin, Barbara L., 1942-

Subject

• English poetry -- Italian influences
• Literary form -- History -- 16th century
• Literary form -- History -- 17th century
• Love poetry, English -- Male authors | History and criticism
• Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 -- Characters | Women
• Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 -- Personnages | Femmes
• Sex role in literature
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542 -- Characters | Women
• Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542 -- Personnages | Femmes
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Characters | Women
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Personnages | Femmes
• England
• English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors-Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell-the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored texts deny the imaginative, intellectual, and physical life of the woman they idealize. In Laura, Barbara L. Estrin counters this traditional view by focusing not on the generative powers of the male poet, but on the subjectivity of the imagined woman and the imaginative space of the poe

Member of

• Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
• Post-contemporary interventions

Cataloging source

NcD

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR535.L7

LC item number

E88 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Post-contemporary interventions