Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /

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This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Virginia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Italian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Italian literature > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Italy > History.
Littérature italienne > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Italie > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian literature.
Italian literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins (1400-1500). The "learned lady" in Quattrocento Italy: an emerging cultural type ; The "learned lady" in theory: models of gender conduct and their contexts ; The "learned lady" as signifier in humanistic culture ; Renaissance particularism and the "learned lady"
  • Translation (1490-1550). Women, the courts, and the vernacular at the turn of the early sixteenth century ; Sappho surfaces: the first female vernacular poets ; Bembo, Petrarchism, and the reform of Italian literature ; "So dear to Apollo": Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna after 1530 ; Founding mothers, first ladies: Gambara and Colonna as models and icons
  • Diffusion (1540-1560). Manuscript and print in the "age of the Council of Trent" ; Virtù rewarded: the contexts of women's writing ; Women writers and their uses: case studies ; Literary trajectories: continuity and change ; Women writers and the paradox of the pedestal.
  • Intermezzo (1560-1580)
  • Affirmation (1580-1620). Women's writing in the age of the Counter-Reformation ; Chivalry undimmed: the contexts of women's writing ; A literature of their own? Writing, ownership, assertion ; The twilight of gallantry
  • Backlash (1590-1650). The rebirth of misogyny in Seicento Italy ; Misogyny and the woman writer: the redomestication of feminine virtù ; Women's writing in Seicento Italy: decline and fall
  • Coda
  • Appendix A: Published writings by Italian women, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
  • Appendix B: Dedications of published works by women.

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