Women in Literature I: Poetry
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"Subversive Conformists": Pernette DuGuillet as Exemplary of Renaissance Women Writers. Brooke Donaldson, University of Mary Washington
To publish her Rymes, Renaissance poet Pernette DuGuillet had three challenges: to overcome social restrictions prohibiting women from participating in public rhetoric; to create a female voice within male-dominant literary models; and to escape her role as passive beloved in the work of fellow poet, Maurice Scève.
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Locating the Real in a Goblin Market: Christina Rossetti and the Problem of Poetic Representation. Samantha Cohen, University of California, Irvine
This paper examines the problem of valuation in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market the level of both commodity and poetic representation. Rossetti uses the Eucharist as a figure for pure representation, an impossibility in a world defined via market value.
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Mothers, Mistresses, and Femininity: Fighting Sexual Degeneracy Through Mina Loy. Rachel Trillo, California State University, Fullerton
In three of her works, Mina Loy advocates a new breed of femininity, both rejecting the earlier standards that heavily wrought women in the Victorian and Post-Victorian eras--thus showing what women can offer besides their reproductive and domestic purposes.
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