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Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy / Shannon McHugh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 18Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048555178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851.1 23/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Literary and Sociohistorical Context -- 1. The People’s Petrarch : Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity -- 2. Context: Men and Women Writers in Late-Renaissance Italy -- Part 2. Making Gender Through Petrarchism -- 3. Ventriloquized Lyric -- 4. Correspondence Lyric -- 5. Religious Lyric -- 6. Conjugal Lyric -- Afterword -- Volume Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry’s work in the world. These poets’ works challenge the traditional boundaries drawn around lyric’s utility. They show us how poems could be sites of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of shaping it.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Literary and Sociohistorical Context -- 1. The People’s Petrarch : Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity -- 2. Context: Men and Women Writers in Late-Renaissance Italy -- Part 2. Making Gender Through Petrarchism -- 3. Ventriloquized Lyric -- 4. Correspondence Lyric -- 5. Religious Lyric -- 6. Conjugal Lyric -- Afterword -- Volume Bibliography -- Index

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This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry’s work in the world. These poets’ works challenge the traditional boundaries drawn around lyric’s utility. They show us how poems could be sites of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of shaping it.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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