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Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation One The Mirror, theDistaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of WomenOs Love Poetry TwoWriting to Live: Pedagogical Poetics in Isabella Whitney and Catherine desRoches Three The Poetics of Group Identity: Self-Commemoration throughDialogue in Pernette du Guillet and Tullia dOAragona Four Feminine Pastoralas Heroic Martyrdom: Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth Five Eros Equalized:Literary Cross-Dressing and the Defense of Women in Louise Labe and VeronicaFranco Notes Bibliography Index