Naked Novels: Victorian Amatory Sonnet Sequences and the Problem of Marriage

This dissertation examines the form of the nineteenth-century sonnet in order to demonstrate how this poetry reshapes expectations of Victorian desire, love and marriage. The amatory sonnet sequence, a poetic form which dates back to the early thirteenth century, traditionally chronicled courtly lov...

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Main Author: Kersh, Sarah Erin
Other Authors: Carolyn Dever
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2010
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11282010-181324/