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Women´s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
Virginia Cox
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Description for Women´s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 168 x 35. Weight in Grams: 842.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801888199
SKU
V9780801888199
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About Virginia Cox
Virginia Cox is a professor of Italian at New York University and author of The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in Its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo and coeditor of The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition. She is also editor and translator of Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein ... Read more
Reviews for Women´s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more