UID:
edocfu_9959243842302883
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-12610-1
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9786611126100
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0-226-81769-5
Series Statement:
The other voice in early modern Europe
Uniform Title:
Selections. 2003
Content:
Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer participated in important debates on capital punishment, freedom of the press, and the abuse of clerical power. She also helped spread Enlightenment ideas into Italy by promoting and publishing Voltaire's latest works and translating new European plays-plays she herself directed, to great applause, on Venetian stages. Bringing together Caminer's letters, poems, and journalistic writings, nearly all published for the first time here, Selected Writings offers readers an intellectual biography of this remarkable figure as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence with the most prominent thinkers of her day. But more important, Selected Writings provides insight into the passion that animated Caminer's fervent reflections on the complex and shifting condition of women in her society-the same passion that pushed her to succeed in the male-dominated literary professions.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Series Editors' Introduction --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Volume Editor's Introduction --
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Volume Editor's Bibliography --
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Part I. The Making of a Woman of Letters in the Eighteenth-Century Veneto --
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Part II. Women and Society. The Intellectual Life --
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Series Editors' Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-81768-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-81767-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226817699
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