Patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism. Harvey explores the discourse of power and sexuality in a fascinating range of early modern texts, and examines the use of the feminine voice by male authors.

Elizabeth D. Harvey

Introduction; Chapter 1 Travesties Of Voice; Chapter 2 Folly and Hysteria; Chapter 3 Matrix as Metaphor; Chapter 4 Ventriloquizing Sappho, or the Lesbian Muse; Coda;