Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance

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  • Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance Book Detail

  • Author : Meredith K. Ray
  • Release Date : 2009-01-01
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 377
  • ISBN 13 : 0802097049
  • File Size : 50,50 MB
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Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray PDF Summary

Book Description: During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning that variously reflected, manipulated, and subverted cultural and literary conventions regarding femininity and masculinity. Meredith K. Ray presents letter collections from authors of diverse backgrounds, including a noblewoman, a courtesan, an actress, a nun, and a male writer who composed letters under female pseudonyms. Ray's study includes extensive new archival research and highlights a widespread interest in women's letter collections during the Italian Renaissance that suggests a deep curiosity about the female experience and a surprising openness to women's participation in this kind of literary production.

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