Ad Feminam: Women and Literature / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Introduction: Voicing Desire -- The Complication of Subjectivity: Petrarch and the Guise of Blindness -- Body of Light, Body of Matter: Self-Reference as Self-Modeling in Gaspara Stampa -- Eating Desire and Embracing Error: Louise Labe and the Spectacle of Sappho -- The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism -- Charlotte Smith and the Echoes of Melancholy -- Indeterminacy and the Economy of Love in Sonnets from the Portuguese -- A Fitting Form: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Petrarchism -- Conclusion: Echoes of Desiring Voices
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index
