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Writing Beloveds Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
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Writing Beloveds [electronic resource] : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender.
ISBN
9781487511791
1487511795
1487500777
9781487500771
9781487514716
1487514719
9781487500771
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (281 pages).
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In English.
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Summary
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.
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KU Select 2016 Frontlist Collection. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Feng, Aileen, Astorga. Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2016
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2024
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Copyright; Dedication; 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 PetrarchismAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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