Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance /

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Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary...

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Main Author: Ray, Meredith K., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Letter writing, Italian.
Italian prose literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Letters.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Prose italienne > Jusqu'à 1700 > Histoire et critique.
Correspondance italienne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Correspondance italienne > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Italie > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Italie > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Italian prose literature > To 1700 > History and criticism.
Letter writing, Italian > History > 17th century.
Letter writing, Italian > History > 16th century.
Women and literature > Italy > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > Italy > History > 16th century.
Italian letters > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Italian letters > Women authors > History and criticism.
Italy.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women's vernacular letters in context
  • Female impersonations: Ortensio Lando's Lettere di molte valorose donne
  • 'A gloria del sesso feminile': The Lettere of Lucrezia Gonzaga as exemplary narrative
  • The courtesan's voice: Veronica Franco's Lettere familiari
  • Between stage and page: the letters of Isabella Andreini
  • The pen for the sword: Arcangela Tarabotti's Lettere familiari e di complimento.

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