| Description |
viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Results of a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women writers and the canon in sixteenth-century Italy: the case of Vittoria Colonna / Virginia Cox -- A female tradition?: women's dialogue writing in sixteenth-century France / Janet Levarie Smarr -- Strong voices, weak minds?: the defenses of Eve by Isotta Nogarola and Christine de Pizan, who found themselves in Simone de Beauvoir's situation / Thelma S. Fenster -- The canon of religious life: Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St. Clare of Assisi / E. Ann Matter -- Christine de Pizan: gender and the new vernacular canon / Kevin Brownlee -- Women writers in renaissance Italy: courtly origins of new literary canons / Fabio Finotti -- Sappho on the Arno: the brief fame of Laura Battiferra / Victoria Kirkham -- The place of female mysticism in the Italian literary canon / Armando Maggi -- Thomas Bentley's monument of matrons: the earliest anthology of English women's texts / John N. King -- The collector's cabinet: Lodovico Domenichi's gallery of women / Deanna Shemek -- Recollecting the renaissance: Luisa Bergalli's Componimenti poetici (1726) / Stuart Curran -- Bad press: modern editors versus early modern women poets (Tullia d'Aragona, Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco) / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Fascist appropriations: the case of Jolanda De Blasi's Le scrittrici italiane / Lina Insana -- A woman for all seasons: the reinvention of Anne Askew / Elaine V. Beilin. |
| Subject |
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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European literature -- Women authors. |
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European literature. |
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Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature, Medieval -- Women authors. |
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Literature, Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Benson, Pamela.
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Kirkham, Victoria.
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| ISBN |
0472068814 paperback alkaline paper |
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0472098810 hdbk alkaline paper |
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9780472098811 hdbk alkaline paper |
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9780472068814 paperback alkaline paper |
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