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- Title
"Clutch[ing] Gold": Wives, Mothers, and Property Law in The Ring and the Book.
- Authors
Rappoport, Jill
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Clutching Gold: Wives, Mothers & Property Law in the Ring & the Book" by Jill Rappoport. The poem is an exploration of a 1698 murder case, wherein, Count Guido Franceschini confesses to killing his wife Pompilia. The multivocal narration of Guido's trials uses this murder less to assign blame than to invite assessments of seventeenth-century systems of gender, justice, and property.
- Subjects
CLUTCHING Gold: Wives, Mothers &; Property Law in the Ring &; the Book (Poem); RAPPOPORT, Jill; POETRY (Literary form); POETS; 17TH century English poetry; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2022, Vol 60, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2022.0000