The prodigious muse : women's writing in counter-reformation Italy /

The prodigious muse : women's writing in counter-reformation Italy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cox, Virginia.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Italian literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Italy > History. Women and literature. History. Italian literature > Women authors. Italian literature. Italy.

Table of Contents:

0. Acknowledgments
0. Introduction
0. Chapter One
1. The\Female Writer in Context
2. Women's Writing and the Counter-Reformation
3. Religious Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy
4. Secular Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy
0. Chapter Two
1. Women's Lyric Output, 1580-1630
2. Pietosi avetti
3. The\Dwindling Muse
0. Chapter Three
1. Drama for the Doge
2. Arcadian Adventures
3. The\Challenge of Tragedy
0. Chapter Four
1. Women Writers and the New Sacred Narrative
2. Refashioning the Gospels
3. Hagiographic Epic
4. Hagiographic Epic Remade
5. A\Medicean Sacred Epic
0. Chapter Five
1. Women Writers and the Literature of Chivalry
2. Ideology and History in Female-Authored Chivalric Epic
3. Gender, Arms, and Love in Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction
4. The\Fortunes of Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction
5. Beyond Chivalry
0. Chapter Six
1. Output and Principal Trends
2. Authorizing Women
3. Preachers in Print
4. Proclaiming Women's Worth
0. Coda
0. Appendix
0. Notes
0. Bibliography
0. Index