TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ray,Meredith K
TI  - Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance
SN  - 9780802097040
AV  - PQ4183.L4 R39 2009eb
U1  - 856/.4099287 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Italian letters
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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ER  -