Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender /

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"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conven...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Feng, Aileen A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374.
Petrarca, Francesco, > 1304-1374 > Influence.
Sex role in literature.
Politics in literature.
Petrarchism.
Italian poetry.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Humanism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
POETRY > Continental European.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Humanisme dans la litterature.
Petrarquisme.
Poesie italienne > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Italian poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world
  • In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century
  • Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century
  • Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel
  • Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.

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