Moral combat : women, gender, and war in Italian Renaissance literature /

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Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milligan, Gerry, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
1500-1599
Italian literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
War in literature.
Littérature italienne > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Italian literature
War in literature
Women in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman; 2 The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman; 3 Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini, and Isabella Cervoni; 4 Classical and Christian Models of ƯWarring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio; 5 The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550); 6 The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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