Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Cox, Virginia

Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for...
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Author: Virginia Cox
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Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 by Cox, Virginia

Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

BD$140.23

Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

BD$140.23
Author: Virginia Cox
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

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.



Author: Virginia Cox
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 06/16/2008
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.55w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780801888199


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 289
Choice 08/01/2009

About the Author

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 Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men, and coeditor and translator of Maddalena Campiglia, Flori, A Pastoral Drama.




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