Imagined Networks in Pre-Modern Italian Literature

Literary Mothers, Literary Sisters
Herausgeber: Buonocore, Eleonora; Cardillo, Giulia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the untold stories of the forgotten literary mothers and sisters of pre-modern Italian literature, and their practices for proposing and adopting alternative models to the male-dominated canon. Six case studies investigate the works of groundbreaking women writers, the networks they built, and the legacy of their writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781666919363
• ISBN-10: 1666919365
• Artikelnr.: 71774228

Autorenporträt

Giulia Cardillo is associate professor of Italian and coordinator of the Italian Program at James Madison University. Eleonora Buonocore is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Jane Tylus
Introduction. Literary Mothers and Sisters in Pre-Modern Italian
Literature, by Eleonora Buonocore and Giulia Cardillo
Chapter 1. Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Caterina da Siena's Creation of
an Elective Family Through Letters, by Eleonora Buonocore
Chapter 2. Rooting and Uprooting. The Pear Tree as Female Intellect in
Bigolina's Urania, by Anna Marra
Chapter 3. Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth
of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini's Mirtilla, by Simona Lorenzini
Chapter 4. Misandry and Effeminacy among Seventeenth-Century Female
Polemicists: Fonte, Marinella, Tarabotti, and Costa, by Sara E. Díaz
Chapter 5. In Marmi o in Carte: Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli on Art
and Poetry, by Giulia Cardillo
Chapter 6. Found in Translation: Bianca Milesi Mojon's Maria Edgeworth, by
Raffaella Leproni
About the Contributors