Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781487511791
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
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.
Content:
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 Petrarchism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487500771
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781487500771
Language:
English
