Aileen Feng

Writing Beloveds

Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781487500771
• ISBN-10: 1487500777
• Artikelnr.: 46606691

Autorenporträt

Aileen A. Feng is an associate professor of Italian at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist
Petrarchism
Chapter 1 - Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World
Chapter 2 - In Laura’s Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchis
in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 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
Chapter 4 - Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology
in the Ciceronian Quarrels
Chapter 5 - Politicizing Gender: Bembo’s Private and Public Petrarchism
Afterword
Bibliography