Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender /

Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng's engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feng, Aileen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Toronto Italian Studies
Temas:
Humanism in literature.
Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.
Petrarchism.
Politics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist Petrarchism
  • 1. Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World
  • 2. In Laura's Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchism in the Fifteenth Century
  • 3. Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century
  • Part II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism
  • 4. Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology in the Ciceronian Quarrel
  • 5. Politicizing Gender: Bembo's Private and Public Petrarchism
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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