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The Cambridge companion to the sonnet

Cousins , A.D.2011
Books, Manuscripts
A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnets history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today
Main title:
The Cambridge companion to the sonnet / edited by A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
Collation:
280 p.
Contents:
Introduction / A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth -- 1. Contemporary poets and the sonnet: a trialogue / Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler -- 2. The sonnet and the lyric mode / Heather Dubrow -- 3. The sonnet, subjectivity, and gender / Diana E. Henderson -- 4. The English sonnet in manuscript, print and mass media / Arthur F. Marotti and Marcelle Freiman -- 5. European beginnings and transmissions: Dante, Petrarch, and the sonnet sequence -- William J. Kennedy -- 6. Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England / Catherine Bates -- 7. Shakespeare's sonnets / A. D. Cousins -- 8. Sacred desire, forms of belief: the religious sonnet in early modern Britain / Helen Wilcox -- 9. Survival and change: the sonnet from Milton to the Romantics / R. S. White -- 10. The Romantic sonnet / Michael ONeill -- 11. The Victorian sonnet / Matthew Campbell -- 12. The modern sonnet / Peter Howarth -- 13. The contemporary sonnet / Stephen Burt
ISBN:
9780521735537 (pbk)
Dewey class:
809.142 CAM
Local class:
809.142
Language:
English
BRN:
86557
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