Gendering the renaissance : text and context in early modern Italy / edited by Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Meredith K., 1969- editor.

Westwater, Lynn Lara, editor.

Series:

Early modern exchange

The early modern exchange

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Italy--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Women.

Sex role--Italy--History.

Sex role.

Social structure--Italy--History.

Social structure.

Women--Renaissance.

Italy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Gendering Genre

1. Widows, Lament, and Ottoman Anxieties in Renaissance Florence / Anna Wainwright

2. Unhappily Ever After: Moderata Fonte's Fairy Tale / Suzanne Magnanini

3. Amerigo Vespucci and African Amazons: Reinventing Italian Exploration in Baroque Epic Poetry / Nathalie Hester

pt. II Gendering Identities

4. The Princess Nun: The Familiar Letters of Suor Eleonora d'Este (1515-1575), Daughter of Lucrezia Borgia / Gabriella Zarri

5. A Christian Romance for Married Women: Marriage, Female Spirituality, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci's Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma / Emanuela Zanotti Carney

6. Maestre Pie Venerini and Filippini: Instituting Public Education for Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Lazio / Jennifer Haraguchi

pt. III Gendering Sanctity

7. The State of Grace in the Libro del Cortegiano / Michael Sherberg

8. Singing Women, Saint Cecilia, and Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Courtney Quaintance

9. "Polemics That Might Seem Spiteful in Heaven": Female Spiritual Authority in Arcangela Tarabotti's Paradiso Monacale / Lynn Lara Westwater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781644533048

1644533049

9781644533055

1644533057

OCLC:

1350182839

Publisher Number:

99993293754