Letters Familiar and Formal - Couverture souple

Tarabotti, Arcangela; Ray, Meredith K.; Westwater, Lynn Lara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0772721327 ISBN 13 : 9780772721327

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

Coerced into taking the veil, Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) spent her life protesting the practice of forcing girls into convents. Her fearless defense of women and attacks on patriarchal Venetian society earned her renown and access to the presses. Her publications, however, invited constant controversy. Tarabotti published her Letters Familiar and Formal to protect and enhance her literary reputation while also chronicling contemporary literary society and material existence in an early modern convent. The Letters flaunted Tarabotti's literary accomplishments, humiliated her critics, and advertised her powerful network of allies in Northern Italy and France. The Letters document how Tarabotti established herself as one of the most forceful proponents for women's self-determination in early modern Europe.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Meredith K. Ray is Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. She is co-editor with Lynn Lara Westwater of Arcangela Tarabotti's Letters Familiar and Formal (2012) in The Other Voice Series.

Lynn Lara Westwater is Associate Professor of Italian at The George Washington University. For The Other Voice Series she is co-editor with Meredith K. Ray of Arcangela Tarabotti's Letters Familiar and Formal (2012) and with Diana Robin of Ippolita Sforza, Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations (2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0772721327
• ISBN 13: 9780772721327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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