Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index
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
