Scholar Paul Innes locates the sonnet in relation to the historical circumstances surrounding its various uses in England. He relates the form to contemporary anxieties about family, lineage, and women--and presents the sonnet as a poetic form which seeks to define women within a set of parameters that are ultimately patriarchal in origin.
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Scholar Paul Innes locates the sonnet in relation to the historical circumstances surrounding its various uses in England. He relates the form to contemporary anxieties about family, lineage, and women--and presents the sonnet as a poetic form which seeks to define women within a set of parameters that are ultimately patriarchal in origin.
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