Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance - Couverture rigide

Ray, Meredith K

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802097049 ISBN 13 : 9780802097040

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning that variously reflected, manipulated, and subverted cultural and literary conventions regarding femininity and masculinity.

Meredith K. Ray presents letter collections from authors of diverse backgrounds, including a noblewoman, a courtesan, an actress, a nun, and a male writer who composed letters under female pseudonyms. Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary production.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Meredith K. Ray is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802097049
• ISBN 13: 9780802097040
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible