Imagined Networks in Pre-Modern Italian Literature - Literary Mothers, Literary Sisters

This book presents the untold stories of the forgotten literary mothers and sisters of pre-modern Italian literature, and their practices for proposing and adopting alternative models to the male-dominated canon. Six case studies investigate the works of groundbreaking women writers, the networks they built, and the legacy of their writings.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Jane Tylus
Introduction. Literary Mothers and Sisters in Pre-Modern Italian Literature, by Eleonora Buonocore and Giulia Cardillo
Chapter 1. Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Caterina da Siena's Creation of an Elective Family Through Letters, by Eleonora Buonocore
Chapter 2. Rooting and Uprooting. The Pear Tree as Female Intellect in Bigolina's Urania, by Anna Marra
Chapter 3. Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini's Mirtilla, by Simona Lorenzini
Chapter 4. Misandry and Effeminacy among Seventeenth-Century Female Polemicists: Fonte, Marinella, Tarabotti, and Costa, by Sara E. Díaz
Chapter 5. In Marmi o in Carte: Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli on Art and Poetry, by Giulia Cardillo
Chapter 6. Found in Translation: Bianca Milesi Mojon's Maria Edgeworth, by Raffaella Leproni
About the Contributors

About the author

Giulia Cardillo is associate professor of Italian and coordinator of the Italian Program at James Madison University.
Eleonora Buonocore is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Calgary.

Product details

• Authors: Eleonora Cardillo Buonocore
• Assisted by: Eleonora Buonocore (Editor), Giulia Cardillo (Editor), Eleonora Buonocore (Editor), Giulia Cardillo (Editor), Jane Tylus (Foreword), Tylus Jane (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666919363
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-936-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Italy, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women & girls, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600