Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender / Aileen A. Feng.

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Feng, Aileen A [author.]

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Computer fileSeries: Toronto Italian studies | Toronto Italian studiesToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]2017Description: xiii, 266 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781487500771
1487500777

Other title:

Humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender

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851/.409 23

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Summary: "This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to sha pe and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to sha pe and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."-- Provided by publisher.

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Writing beloveds : humanist Petrarchism and the politics of gender / Aileen A. Feng.