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Through close and sustained analysis of strategies of abjection in verse from Petrarch to Spenser and D'Aubigne, Love's Wounds examines how early modern poets craft expressions of suffering to challenge inherited orders of sovereignty. Reading lyric sensuously and forcefully, Cynthia N. Nazarian offers a fresh and vigorous study of canonical works. Her work is stunning, and this book will be an enduring point of reference in the years to come. -Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France In Love's Wounds, Cynthia N. Nazarian makes a splendid contribution to Renaissance studies by questioning conventional notions of powerless desire, by uncovering unsuspected relationships between psychological abjection and political subjection, and by using lyric poetry to position ethical and political critique in dialogue with each other and with various forms of literary epic, romance, drama, and manifesto. -William J. Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University, author of Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare The fascinating Love's Wounds contains phrases that are as sharp as poniards. To relate images of political struggle against kings and empires to the rebellion of a Petrarchan lover against the sovereignty of an immovable lady is ingenious. -Anne Prescott, Senior Scholar and Emerita Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English, Barnard College, author of French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation In this impressive book, Cynthia N. Nazarian takes seriously the hyperbolic stance of the vulnerable lover, from Petrarch to Shakespeare, and demonstrates the surprising political uses and strengths of such weakness. Love's Wounds deals provocatively with a range of canonical literary works and areas such as rhetoric and ethics, the practice of literary imitation, and the representation of early modern martyrdom and violence. -Ullrich Langer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne

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Cynthia N. Nazarian is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University.

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