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OverviewThis book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry’s work in the world. These poets’ works challenge the traditional boundaries drawn around lyric’s utility. They show us how poems could be sites of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of shaping it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shannon McHughPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463720274ISBN 10: 9463720278 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 07 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People’s Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric AfterwordReviewsAuthor InformationShannon McHugh is Associate Professor of Italian and French at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-translator of Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna (Iter Press, 2015) and co-editor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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