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Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice
Courtney K. Quaintance
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Hardback. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier's social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they wrote and circulated poems in Venetian dialect in which women were prostitutes whose defiled bodies were available to all. Courtney Quaintance analyses poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues to show how male writers established, sustained, and publicized their relationships to one another through the exchange of fictional women. She also shows how Gaspara Stampa and ... Read more
Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier's social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they wrote and circulated poems in Venetian dialect in which women were prostitutes whose defiled bodies were available to all. Courtney Quaintance analyses poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues to show how male writers established, sustained, and publicized their relationships to one another through the exchange of fictional women. She also shows how Gaspara Stampa and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442649132
SKU
V9781442649132
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Ref
99-1
About Courtney K. Quaintance
Courtney Quaintance is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice
'Quintances' translations are lively and effective... We have much to learn from the material she analyzes.'
Mary Gallucci Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:04:2016 'Textual Masculinity elegantly weaves together social class and language, and cultures of manuscript exchange and print, academies and libertinism, in the late Venetian Renaissance.'
Holly S. Hurlburt Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016
Mary Gallucci Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:04:2016 'Textual Masculinity elegantly weaves together social class and language, and cultures of manuscript exchange and print, academies and libertinism, in the late Venetian Renaissance.'
Holly S. Hurlburt Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016