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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
|
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full text available: |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of 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.