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Record Nr.

UNISA996580166203316

Autore

Feng Aileen

Titolo

Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender / / Aileen Feng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Toronto Press, 2016

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2017

ISBN

1-4875-1180-9

1-4875-1471-9

1-4875-1179-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

851/.409

Soggetti

Italian poetry - 16th century - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world -- In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century -- Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century -- Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel -- Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.

Sommario/riassunto

"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--