Yael Manes

Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities, this book analyses plays in the genre of 'erudite comedy' (commedia erudita), which was extremely popular among elite sixteenth-century Italians. Author Manes investigates five erudite comedies-one each by Ludovico Ariosto, Antonio Landi and Giovan Maria Cecchi, and two by Niccolò Machiavelli, to consider how erudite comedies functioned as ideological battlefields where the gender system of patriarchy was examined, negotiated and critiqued.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781409434405
• ISBN-10: 1409434400
• Artikelnr.: 57048595

Autorenporträt

Yael Manes received her doctorate from the Department of History at Cornell University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Agnes Scott College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Feminine Fatherhood?, Yael Manes; Chapter 1 What Is a
Mother's Worth? The Negotiation of Motherhood and Virtù in Machiavelli's La
mandragola (1518), Yael Manes; Chapter 2 Replacing the Father: Negotiating
Motherhood and the Battle for Authority in Machiavelli's Clizia (1525),
Yael Manes; Chapter 3 Prescribing the Ideal Mother in the Discourse of
Humanism and Antonio Landi's Il commodo (1539), Yael Manes; Chapter 4 The
Father-Son Conflict and the Dysfunction of Fatherhood in Giovan Maria
Cecchi's La stiava (1546) and Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi (1509), Yael
Manes; Chapter 102 Conclusion: Motherhood as Masculine Identity's Object of
Desire, Yael Manes;