Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 /
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- 0. Acknowledgments
- 0. Introduction
- 0. Chapter One
- 1. The\"Learned Lady" in Quattrocento Italy
- 2. The\"Learned Lady" in Theory
- 3. The\"Learned Lady" as Signifier in Humanistic Culture
- 4. Renaissance Particularism and the "Learned Lady"
- 0. Chapter Two
- 1. Women, the Courts, and the Vernacular in the Early Sixteenth Century
- 2. Sappho Surfaces
- 3. Bembo, Petrarchism, and the Reform of Italian Literature
- 4. "So Dear to Apollo"
- 5. Founding Mothers, First Ladies
- 0. Chapter 3
- 1. Manuscript and Print in the "Age of the Council of Trent"
- 2. Virtù Rewarded
- 3. Women Writers and Their Uses
- 4. Literary Trajectories
- 5. Women Writers and the Paradox of the Pedestal
- 0. Chapter Four
- 0. Chapter Five
- 1. Women's Writing in the Age of the Counter-Reformation
- 2. Chivalry Undimmed
- 3. A\Literature of Their Own?
- 4. The\Twilight of Gallantry
- 0. Chapter 6
- 1. The\Rebirth of Misogyny in Seicento Italy
- 2. Misogyny and the Woman Writer
- 3. Women's Writing in Seicento Italy
- 0. Coda
- 0. Appendix A
- 0. Appendix B
- 0. Notes
- 0. Bibliography
- 0. Index