The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540–1620Indiana University Press, 1990 - 242 Seiten "Professor Jones' book uniquely fills a huge hole in gender studies in the Renaissance. Its easy clarity of argument, its scrupulous care for detail, its just plain good story telling, and its theoretical sophistication make it an obvious candidate for the status of standard work." —Maureen Quilligan |
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... feminine power , they also praise a contemporary poet face to face in a dialogue that shows that women were beginning to take one another seri- ously as participants in literary culture . In their forays into the debate over female ...
... feminine ideal , much as Robert Greene would soon do in his Penel- ope's Web ( 1587 ) , in which he cites heroines of romance as illustrations of obedience , chastity , and silence.1 Whitney represents herself as a model of moral ...
... feminine love lyric , as do the many masculine names collected in her text . The balance she establishes between autonomy and dependency in the figure of Philomela might be read as a map of the collection as a whole . Tullia was caught ...