Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Van Remoortel, Marianne

Titel

The Secret Life of the Della Cruscan Sonnet: William Gifford's "Baviad" and "Maeviad"

Ist Teil von

• The Modern language review, 2007-04, Vol.102 (2), p.311-325

Ort / Verlag

Belfast: Maney Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Project MUSE - single title subscriptions

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the past few decades, feminist critics have conveniently regarded the sonnet as a fundamentally masculine genre, as a bulwark of male subjectivity and a site of female objectification. This essay argues that the gendered allegiances of the nineteenth-century sonnet are much more complicated, and originate in the feminization that this male-dominated genre underwent in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Taking William Gifford's critique on the Della Cruscan poets in his satires "The Baviad" (1791) and "The Maeviad" (1795) as a case study, it examines the use of the feminized sonnet genre as satirical tool and as a metaphor of marginalization.