Author : Aileen Astorga Feng
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511809
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Book Synopsis Writing Beloveds by : Aileen Astorga Feng
Download or read book Writing Beloveds written by Aileen Astorga Feng and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’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 Writing Beloveds, 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. By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’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. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe.