Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet

<p>This dissertation investigates the ways that women poets, from the late Renaissance to the postmodern age, have used the sonnet form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring theme in women's writing: the power of patriarchal constructs to prevent women's individuation within traditional, middle-class cultural norms.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Ramsden, Catherine Anne

• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/541

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss-1540