Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

NATASHA DISTILLER is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is author of South Africa, Shakespeare, and Post-Colonial Culture, and co-editor of Under Construction: 'race' and identity in South Africa Today, and of the journal Social Dynamics. She has also published widely in local and international journals.

• Acknowledgements Sex, Gender, and Sexual Difference Petrarchism and Psychoanalysis Petrarchism in Early Modern England The Petrarchism of Mary Wroth Strategies of Legitimation 1796-1881 Queering the Petrarchan Subject: The Poetry of Rosa Newmarch Edna St Vincent Millay and the Dissident Petrarchan Subject Afterword: Petrarchism Today Works Cited Index