Women and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-1700 / / Daria Berg |
Autore | Berg Daria <1964-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 895.1/099287 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Women and literature - China
Chinese literature - 960-1644 - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-138-64350-5
0-203-11422-1 1-136-29021-4 1-136-29022-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan) region in the late imperial period (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911); The rise of literary women: an introduction; Concepts; Gentility and literary culture; The hidden sage; The historian as a messenger of souls; The publishing industry; Aims and outline; Notes; 1 Writing goddess: virgin, venerators, literary vogues; A new reading of Tanyangzi's story; The voices
Literati reactions to female literacyConclusion; Notes; 2 The child prodigy; The precocious girl; Styling the catkins poetess; What happens when the catkins poetess grows up?; Books, libraries and the child prodigy-turned-goddess; Duplicating goddesses; Reconstructing her voice; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Queen of the bordellos? The courtesan's quest; An invitation; Qinhuai revisited; Biographical reconstruction; Reconstructing Xue Susu's lost book; Recovering the courtesan's poetic voice; Through the literati's eyes; In the gentlewoman's gaze; The artistic gaze; Conclusion; Notes 4 Miss Emotion: the drama of the new woman reader on the literary marketplacePortrait of a woman reader; The biographer's gaze; The editor's gaze; The female gaze in the literary oeuvre; Gossip, rumours or lies? The question of authenticity; Sweet words of seduction: the cult of emotions and the cult of clever women; The reader; Trading emotions: books and business; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Editing her story, rewriting hi/story: the art of female self-fashioning; The concept of self-fashioning; Editorship and the publishing industry; The gentlewoman editor; The professional woman editor Gentlewomen critics and team editorsCourtesan editors; The courtesan collator-cum-copy editor; Male views of editorship; Perceptions of women editors: a view from fiction; Conclusion: editorial negotiations; Notes; 6 Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club; A literary society for gentlewomen; The circle of poets; The Banana Garden; Simple, solitary and serene: the image of the gentlewoman scholar; The Banana Garden girls in the male gaze; Through female eyes; Women and publishing; The legacy of the Banana Garden club; Whose story is it anyway?; Conclusion; Notes; Epilogue List of works citedSources cited by abbreviation; Other primary sources; Secondary sources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452798103321 |
Berg Daria <1964-, >
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Women and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-1700 / / Daria Berg |
Autore | Berg Daria <1964-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 895.1/099287 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Women and literature - China
Chinese literature - 960-1644 - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-138-64350-5
0-203-11422-1 1-136-29021-4 1-136-29022-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan) region in the late imperial period (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911); The rise of literary women: an introduction; Concepts; Gentility and literary culture; The hidden sage; The historian as a messenger of souls; The publishing industry; Aims and outline; Notes; 1 Writing goddess: virgin, venerators, literary vogues; A new reading of Tanyangzi's story; The voices
Literati reactions to female literacyConclusion; Notes; 2 The child prodigy; The precocious girl; Styling the catkins poetess; What happens when the catkins poetess grows up?; Books, libraries and the child prodigy-turned-goddess; Duplicating goddesses; Reconstructing her voice; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Queen of the bordellos? The courtesan's quest; An invitation; Qinhuai revisited; Biographical reconstruction; Reconstructing Xue Susu's lost book; Recovering the courtesan's poetic voice; Through the literati's eyes; In the gentlewoman's gaze; The artistic gaze; Conclusion; Notes 4 Miss Emotion: the drama of the new woman reader on the literary marketplacePortrait of a woman reader; The biographer's gaze; The editor's gaze; The female gaze in the literary oeuvre; Gossip, rumours or lies? The question of authenticity; Sweet words of seduction: the cult of emotions and the cult of clever women; The reader; Trading emotions: books and business; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Editing her story, rewriting hi/story: the art of female self-fashioning; The concept of self-fashioning; Editorship and the publishing industry; The gentlewoman editor; The professional woman editor Gentlewomen critics and team editorsCourtesan editors; The courtesan collator-cum-copy editor; Male views of editorship; Perceptions of women editors: a view from fiction; Conclusion: editorial negotiations; Notes; 6 Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club; A literary society for gentlewomen; The circle of poets; The Banana Garden; Simple, solitary and serene: the image of the gentlewoman scholar; The Banana Garden girls in the male gaze; Through female eyes; Women and publishing; The legacy of the Banana Garden club; Whose story is it anyway?; Conclusion; Notes; Epilogue List of works citedSources cited by abbreviation; Other primary sources; Secondary sources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779997503321 |
Berg Daria <1964-, >
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Women and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-1700 / / Daria Berg |
Autore | Berg Daria <1964-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 895.1/099287 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Women and literature - China
Chinese literature - 960-1644 - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-138-64350-5
0-203-11422-1 1-136-29021-4 1-136-29022-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan) region in the late imperial period (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911); The rise of literary women: an introduction; Concepts; Gentility and literary culture; The hidden sage; The historian as a messenger of souls; The publishing industry; Aims and outline; Notes; 1 Writing goddess: virgin, venerators, literary vogues; A new reading of Tanyangzi's story; The voices
Literati reactions to female literacyConclusion; Notes; 2 The child prodigy; The precocious girl; Styling the catkins poetess; What happens when the catkins poetess grows up?; Books, libraries and the child prodigy-turned-goddess; Duplicating goddesses; Reconstructing her voice; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Queen of the bordellos? The courtesan's quest; An invitation; Qinhuai revisited; Biographical reconstruction; Reconstructing Xue Susu's lost book; Recovering the courtesan's poetic voice; Through the literati's eyes; In the gentlewoman's gaze; The artistic gaze; Conclusion; Notes 4 Miss Emotion: the drama of the new woman reader on the literary marketplacePortrait of a woman reader; The biographer's gaze; The editor's gaze; The female gaze in the literary oeuvre; Gossip, rumours or lies? The question of authenticity; Sweet words of seduction: the cult of emotions and the cult of clever women; The reader; Trading emotions: books and business; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Editing her story, rewriting hi/story: the art of female self-fashioning; The concept of self-fashioning; Editorship and the publishing industry; The gentlewoman editor; The professional woman editor Gentlewomen critics and team editorsCourtesan editors; The courtesan collator-cum-copy editor; Male views of editorship; Perceptions of women editors: a view from fiction; Conclusion: editorial negotiations; Notes; 6 Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club; A literary society for gentlewomen; The circle of poets; The Banana Garden; Simple, solitary and serene: the image of the gentlewoman scholar; The Banana Garden girls in the male gaze; Through female eyes; Women and publishing; The legacy of the Banana Garden club; Whose story is it anyway?; Conclusion; Notes; Epilogue List of works citedSources cited by abbreviation; Other primary sources; Secondary sources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910800088803321 |
Berg Daria <1964-, >
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Women and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-1700 / / Daria Berg |
Autore | Berg Daria <1964-, > |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 895.1/099287 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Women and literature - China
Chinese literature - 960-1644 - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-138-64350-5
0-203-11422-1 1-136-29021-4 1-136-29022-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan) region in the late imperial period (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911); The rise of literary women: an introduction; Concepts; Gentility and literary culture; The hidden sage; The historian as a messenger of souls; The publishing industry; Aims and outline; Notes; 1 Writing goddess: virgin, venerators, literary vogues; A new reading of Tanyangzi's story; The voices
Literati reactions to female literacyConclusion; Notes; 2 The child prodigy; The precocious girl; Styling the catkins poetess; What happens when the catkins poetess grows up?; Books, libraries and the child prodigy-turned-goddess; Duplicating goddesses; Reconstructing her voice; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Queen of the bordellos? The courtesan's quest; An invitation; Qinhuai revisited; Biographical reconstruction; Reconstructing Xue Susu's lost book; Recovering the courtesan's poetic voice; Through the literati's eyes; In the gentlewoman's gaze; The artistic gaze; Conclusion; Notes 4 Miss Emotion: the drama of the new woman reader on the literary marketplacePortrait of a woman reader; The biographer's gaze; The editor's gaze; The female gaze in the literary oeuvre; Gossip, rumours or lies? The question of authenticity; Sweet words of seduction: the cult of emotions and the cult of clever women; The reader; Trading emotions: books and business; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Editing her story, rewriting hi/story: the art of female self-fashioning; The concept of self-fashioning; Editorship and the publishing industry; The gentlewoman editor; The professional woman editor Gentlewomen critics and team editorsCourtesan editors; The courtesan collator-cum-copy editor; Male views of editorship; Perceptions of women editors: a view from fiction; Conclusion: editorial negotiations; Notes; 6 Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club; A literary society for gentlewomen; The circle of poets; The Banana Garden; Simple, solitary and serene: the image of the gentlewoman scholar; The Banana Garden girls in the male gaze; Through female eyes; Women and publishing; The legacy of the Banana Garden club; Whose story is it anyway?; Conclusion; Notes; Epilogue List of works citedSources cited by abbreviation; Other primary sources; Secondary sources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815813803321 |
Berg Daria <1964-, >
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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