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This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline. Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early modern Italian women's writing and questions the historiographical commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.
| ISBN | 0801888190 | | Pages | 496 | | ISBN13 | 9780801888199
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 817 | | Imprint | Johns Hopkins University Press | | Published in | Baltimore, MD | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 17 Jun 2008 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | Library of Congress | 2007036098 | | Spine width (mm) | 32 | | DEWEY | 850.99287 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Interest age | From 17 |
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| Ch. 1 | | Origins (1400-1500) | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Translation (1490-1550) | | 37 | | Ch. 3 | | Diffusion (1540-1560) | | 80 | | Ch. 4 | | Intermezzo (1560-1580) | | 121 | | Ch. 5 | | Affirmation (1580-1620) | | 131 | | Ch. 6 | | Backlash (1590-1650) | | 166 | | | | Coda | | 228 | | Appendix A | | Published Writings by Italian Women, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries | | 235 | | Appendix B | | Dedications of Published Works by Women | | 247 | | | | Notes | | 255 | | | | Bibliography | | 377 | | | | Index | | 447 |
Exhaustive and insightful... This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies. -- Elissa Weaver Renaissance Quarterly 2009 This is a definitive study and will surely remain so for many years to come. Choice 2009 Virginia Cox has written a magisterial study of the major trends in women's writing in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy... This is indeed an impressive volume and one which deserves to be read and studied. It will change the way we think about women's writing in early modern Italy. -- Stephen Kolsky Modern Language Review 2010  Be the first to write a customer review
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