The prodigious muse : women's writing in counter-reformation Italy / Virginia Cox.
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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 439 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781421401607
- PQ4063 .P763 2011
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Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER ONE. CONTEXTS""; ""1. The Female Writer in Context: Opportunities, Attitudes, Models""; ""2. Women�s Writing and the Counter-Reformation""; ""3. Religious Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: A Poetics of Conversion""; ""4. Secular Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: The New Sensualism and the Misogynist Turn""; ""CHAPTER TWO: LYRIC VERSE""; ""1. Women�s Lyric Output, 1580�1630""; ""2. Pietosi affetti: Spiritual Lyric and the Female Poet""
""3. The Dwindling Muse: Female-Authored Secular Lyric in Post-Tridentine Italy""""CHAPTER THREE: DRAMA""; ""1. Drama for the Doge: Moderata Fonte�s Le feste""; ""2. Arcadian Adventures: Women Writers and Pastoral Drama""; ""3. The Challenge of Tragedy: Valeria Miani�s Celinda""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: SACRED NARRATIVE""; ""1. Women Writers and the New Sacred Narrative""; ""2. Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament Narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina""; ""3. Hagiographic Epic: Lucrezia Marinella�s Lives of Saints Columba and Francis""
""4. Hagiographic Epic Remade: Marinella�s Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena""""5. A Medicean Sacred Epic: Maddalena Salvetti�s David perseguitato""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: SECULAR NARRATIVE""; ""1. Women Writers and the Literature of Chivalry""; ""2. Ideology and History in Female-Authored Chivalric Epic""; ""3. Gender, Arms, and Love in Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction""; ""4. The Fortunes of Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction""; ""5. Beyond Chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella�s Experiments in Mythological Epic and Pastoral Romance""; ""CHAPTER SIX: DISCURSIVE PROSE""
""1. Output and Principal Trends""""2. Authorizing Women: The Problem of Docere""; ""3. Preachers in Print: Religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini""; ""4. Proclaiming Women�s Worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmes""; ""CODA""; ""Appendix: Italian Women Writers Active 1580�1635""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""
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