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OverviewTextual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a provocative analysis of the pornographic poetry written in patrician poet Domenico Venier's social circle. While Venier and his salon were renowned for elegant love sonnets featuring unattainable female beloveds, among themselves they wrote and circulated poems in Venetian dialect in which women were prostitutes whose defiled bodies were available to all. Courtney Quaintance analyses poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues to show how male writers established, sustained, and publicized their relationships to one another through the exchange of fictional women. She also shows how Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco, two women writers with ties to the salon, appropriated and transformed tropes of female sexuality and male literary collaboration to position themselves within this homosocial literary economy. Based on archival work and Quaintance's exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Courtney QuaintancePublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781442649132ISBN 10: 1442649135 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 22 April 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing the Whore in Renaissance Venice 1. Gang Rape and Literary Fame 2. Fictional Ladies and Literary Fraternity 3. The Erotics of Venetian Dialect 4. Dialect and Homosociality from Manuscript to Print 5. Women Writers Between MenReviews'Quintances' translations are lively and effective... We have much to learn from the material she analyzes.' -- Mary Gallucci Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:04:2016 'Textual Masculinity elegantly weaves together social class and language, and cultures of manuscript exchange and print, academies and libertinism, in the late Venetian Renaissance.' -- Holly S. Hurlburt Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016 'Textual Masculinity elegantly weaves together social class and language, and cultures of manuscript exchange and print, academies and libertinism, in the late Venetian Renaissance.' -- Holly S. Hurlburt Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016 Author InformationCourtney Quaintance is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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