Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender / Aileen Feng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feng, Aileen, author.

Series:

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Influence.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Italian poetry--16th century--History and criticism.

Italian poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Place of Publication:

University of Toronto Press 2016

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Women of stone : gender and politics in the Petrarchan world

In Laura's shadow : gendered dialogues and humanist Petrarchism in the fifteenth century

Laura speaks : sisterhood, amicitia, and marital love in the female Latin Petrarchist writings of the fifteenth century

Theorizing gender : nation building and female mythology in Ciceronian quarrel

Politicizing gender : Bembo's private and public Petrarchism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1180-9

1-4875-1471-9

1-4875-1179-5

OCLC:

1054877537