| Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 Contributor(s): Cox, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801888190 ISBN-13: 9780801888199 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women's writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Italian - History | Europe - Italy - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 850.992 |
| LCCN: 2007036098 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.55" W x 9.24" (1.84 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
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| Publisher Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women's writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cox, Virginia: - Virginia Cox is a professor of Italian at New York University, author of Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, also published by Johns Hopkins, and The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in Its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo, and coeditor of The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition. |