Laura : uncovering gender and genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell

Acknowledgments xiNote on Editions xivIntroduction: Gender Performance and Genre Slippage 1PETRARCH Inverting the Order: Laura as Eve to Petrarch's Adam 41"Like a Man Who Thinks and Weeps and Writes": Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus 61WYATT Taking Bread: Wyatt's Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms 93"Liking This": Telling Wyatt's Feelings 123DONNE Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics 149Sylvia Transformed: Returning Donne's Gifts 180"A Pregnant Bank": Contracting and Abstracting the "You" in Donne's "A Valediction of My Name in the Window" and "Elegy: Change" 201MARVELL "Busie Companies of Men": Appropriations of Female Power in "Damon the Mower" and "The Gallery" 227"Preparing for Longer Flight": Marvell's Nymph and the Revenge of Silence 255A-Mazing and A-Musing: After the Garden in "Appleton House" 278Musing Afterward 304Notes 319Index 341