Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender /
Feng, Aileen A.,
Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender / Aileen A. Feng. - 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages). - Toronto Italian studies . - Toronto Italian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--
9781487511791 1487511795 9781487514716 1487514719
22573/ctt1wfqd38 JSTOR
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 --Influence.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
1500-1599
Italian poetry--History and criticism.--16th century
Petrarchism.
Humanism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
POETRY--Continental European.
Humanism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Italian poetry.
Petrarchism.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ4103 / .F45 2017eb
851/.409
Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender / Aileen A. Feng. - 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages). - Toronto Italian studies . - Toronto Italian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--
9781487511791 1487511795 9781487514716 1487514719
22573/ctt1wfqd38 JSTOR
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 --Influence.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
1500-1599
Italian poetry--History and criticism.--16th century
Petrarchism.
Humanism in literature.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
POETRY--Continental European.
Humanism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Italian poetry.
Petrarchism.
Politics in literature.
Sex role in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ4103 / .F45 2017eb
851/.409