{"product_id":"writing-beloveds-humanist-petrarchism-and-the-politics-of-gender-hardback-9781487500771","title":"Writing Beloveds; Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender (Hardback) 9781487500771","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWriting Beloveds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHumanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAileen Astorga Feng (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487500771\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this deeply researched, carefully analyzed, and engagingly written book, Aileen A. Feng explores Petrach\u0026amp;#x2019;s influence upon Latin humanist prose in Italy\u0026amp;#x2019;s early Renaissance and upon vernacular poetry and prose in its later Renaissance. \"\u003c\/p\u003e - William J. Kennedy (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Deeply researched, tightly argued, and elegantly written, Feng\u0026amp;#x2019;s book makes an intriguing and compelling argument for revising the conventional chronology of Renaissance Petrarchism. This version is bound to exert influence over the field of Renaissance studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Danila Sokolov, University of Iceland (\u003cem\u003eEarly Modern Women\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng\u0026amp;#x2019;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 \u003ci\u003eWriting Beloveds\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy revealing the literary motifs in men\u0026amp;#x2019;s and women\u0026amp;#x2019;s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch\u0026amp;#x2019;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. \u003ci\u003eWriting Beloveds\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist Petrarchism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 - Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 - In Laura\u0026amp;#x2019;s Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchis in the Fifteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 - Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, \u003ci\u003eAmicitia\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 - Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ein the Ciceronian Quarrels \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 - Politicizing Gender: Bembo\u0026amp;#x2019;s Private and Public Petrarchism \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595448676632,"sku":"9781487500771","price":39.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/writing-beloveds-humanist-petrarchism-and-the-politics-of-gender-hardback-9781487500771","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}