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Informationen zum Autor Ann Rosalind Jones Klappentext " -Review of English StudiesThe Currency of Eros examines women's love lyrics in Renaissance Europe as strategic responses to two cultural systems: early modern gender ideologies and male-authored literary conventions. Zusammenfassung " -Review of English StudiesThe Currency of Eros examines women's love lyrics in Renaissance Europe as strategic responses to two cultural systems: early modern gender ideologies and male-authored literary conventions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Acknowledgments Introduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation One The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of Women's Love Poetry Two Writing to Live: Pedagogical Poetics in Isabella Whitney and Catherine des Roches Three The Poetics of Group Identity: Self-Commemoration through Dialogue in Pernette du Guillet and Tullia d'Aragona Four Feminine Pastoral as Heroic Martyrdom: Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth Five Eros Equalized: Literary Cross-Dressing and the Defense of Women in Louise Labe and Veronica Franco Notes Bibliography Index
