Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

by Heather Dubrow

Book Overview

Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501722832
• ISBN13: 9781501722837
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher