Writing Beloveds : Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender /

"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 conven...

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Main Author: Feng, Aileen A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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