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100	1		_aCox, Virginia.
245	1	0	_aWomen's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2008.
264		4	_c©2008.
300			_a1 online resource (495 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. ORIGINS (1400-1500) -- 1. The "Learned Lady" in Quattrocento Italy: An Emerging Cultural Type -- 2. The "Learned Lady" in Theory: Models of Gender Conduct and Their Contexts -- 3. The "Learned Lady" as Signifier in Humanistic Culture -- 4. Renaissance Particularism and the "Learned Lady" -- CHAPTER TWO. TRANSLATION (1490-1550) -- 1. Women, the Courts, and the Vernacular in the Early Sixteenth Century -- 2. Sappho Surfaces: The First Female Vernacular Poets -- 3. Bembo, Petrarchism, and the Reform of Italian Literature -- 4. "So Dear to Apollo": Veronica Gambara and Vittoria Colonna after 1530 -- 5. Founding Mothers, First Ladies: Gambara and Colonna as Models and Icons -- CHAPTER THREE. DIFFUSION (1540-1560) -- 1. Manuscript and Print in the "Age of the Council of Trent" -- 2. Virtù Rewarded: The Contexts of Women's Writing -- 3. Women Writers and Their Uses: Case Studies -- 4. Literary Trajectories: Continuity and Change -- 5. Women Writers and the Paradox of the Pedestal -- CHAPTER FOUR. INTERMEZZO (1560-1580) -- CHAPTER FIVE. AFFIRMATION (1580-1620) -- 1. Women's Writing in the Age of the Counter-Reformation -- 2. Chivalry Undimmed: The Contexts of Women's Writing -- 3. A Literature of Their Own? Writing, Ownership, Assertion -- 4. The Twilight of Gallantry -- CHAPTER SIX. BACKLASH (1590-1650) -- 1. The Rebirth of Misogyny in Seicento Italy -- 2. Misogyny and the Woman Writer: The Redomestication of Female Virtù -- 3. Women's Writing in Seicento Italy: Decline and Fall -- CODA -- Appendix A. Published Writings by Italian Women, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- Appendix B. Dedications of Published Works by Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
520			_aUsing 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCox, Virginia _tWomen's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 _dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2008 _z9780801888199
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318499 _zClick to View
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