Women''s Writing in Italy, 14001650

Informationen zum Autor Virginia Cox is a professor of Italian and director of graduate studies at New York University. She is author of The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy and Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650 , both published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Cox, Virginia (New York University) Cox
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2008
• EAN: 9780801888199
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8819-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism