Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

711. Amorous Delicacies: Donne and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon J, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the John Donne Society

Presiding: Ilona D. Bell, Williams Coll.

1. “Female Same-Sex Desire and the Problem of ‘Samenesss’ in Donne’s ‘Sapho to Philaenis,’” Maria Frangos, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

2. “Desire unto Death: Revisiting Donne’s Rhetoric of Erotic Compulsion in ‘Farewell to Love,’” Ben Saunders, Univ. of Oregon

3. “Desiring Souls,” Elizabeth Dolan Harvey, Univ. of Toronto

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