Writing Beloveds - Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aileen Feng, Aileen A. Feng, Aileen Astorga Feng
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781487500771
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0077-1
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Toronto Italian Studies; Toronto Italian Studies (Hardc; Toronto Italian Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza