Text

Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender

---

Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy.
By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

: ., 2016

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781487500771

Classification

NONE

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Literary Criticism / Renaissance

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Aileen A. Feng

Other Information

Cataloger

Kholif Basri

Source

https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/b7053389-c4fd-49f3-aa60-389786502d80

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment