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Chaste thinking : the rape of Lucretia and the birth of humanism / by Stephanie H Jed. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jed, Stephanie H, 1953-
- Series:
- Theories of representation and difference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brutus, Lucius Junius--In literature.
- Brutus, Lucius Junius.
- Lucretia--In literature.
- Lucretia.
- Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. Declamatio Lucretiae.
- Salutati, Coluccio.
- Chastity in literature.
- Rape in literature.
- Humanism--History.
- Humanism.
- Humanists.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Liberty in literature.
- Transmission of texts.
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 160 p. ) facsim. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1989.
- Summary:
- "A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism; or the reception and continued transmission of humanist ideology in the U.S. today ; and of a significant but neglected text on Lucretia by Coluccio Salutati .... - Margaret W. Ferguson (back cover).
- "Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideological relationship between sexual violence and humanistic discourse."--pub. webpage.
- Contents:
- Tum Brutus castigator lacrimarum, the cruelty of Brutus and the politics of philology
- Per hunc castissimum sanguinem, Lucretia's chastity and the alienation from literary material
- In secretis penetralibus, Mercantile writing and the construct of privacy
- Modern humanism and the relation of writing
- Appendix : Facsimile, transcription of Salutati's Declamatio Lucretiae [Salutati, Coluccio]
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 153-158.
- Contains:
- Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. Declamatio Lucretiae. English & Latin. 1989.
- Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. Declamatio Lucretiae. English & Latin.
- ISBN:
- 9786612078996
- 0-585-00096-4
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