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1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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1. Circular Definitions: Configuring Gender in Italian Renaissance Festival -- 2. That Elusive Object of Desire: Angelica in the Orlando Furioso -- 3. Gender, Duality, and the Sacrifices of History: Bradamante in the Orlando Furioso -- 4. Getting a Word in Edgewise: Laura Terracina's Discorsi on the Orlando Furioso -- 5. From Insult to Injury: Bandello's Tales of Isabella de Luna -- App. 1. Matteo Bandello, Novelle, part II, novella 51 -- App. 2. Matteo Bandello, Novelle, part IV, novella 16 |
| Summary |
The issue of a woman's place--and the possibility that she might stray from it--was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Deanna Shemek uses this foundation to present the problem of wayward feminine behavior as it was perceived to threaten male identity and social order in the artistic and intellectual articulations of the Italian Renaissance.Seeing errancy as an act of resistance rather than of error, Shemek carries her study beyond the didactic and prescriptive literature on femininity in early modern Italy to an arena in which theories about femininity are considered jointly with real and fictional instances of women's waywardness. As prostitutes, warriors, lovers, and poets, the women of Shemek's study are found in canonical texts, marginal works, and popular artistic activity, appearing, for instance, in literature, paintings, legal proceedings, and accounts of public festivals. By juxtaposing these varied places of errancy--from Ariosto's chivalric Orlando furioso to the prostitutes' race in the Palio di San Giorgio--Shemek points to the important contact between elite and popular cultures in early modernity, revealing the strength and flexibility of a gender boundary fundamental to early modern conceptions of social order |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-247) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Social structure in literature.
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Italian literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Sex role in literature
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Italian literature
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Social structure in literature
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Women in literature
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Italiaans.
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Letterkunde.
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Vrouwen.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97032552 |
| ISBN |
9780822399896 |
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082239989X |
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