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Early Modern Women Writers of Venice: Looking for Happiness book cover

1st Edition

Early Modern Women Writers of Venice Looking for Happiness

By Kathleen French Copyright 2025
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge
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Early Modern Women Writers of Venice: Looking for Happiness explores the ways in which five women used their writing to challenge misogynistic views about female inferiority, develop a sense of agency, and form meaningful interpersonal relationships that would enable them to find happiness. They are the forerunners of later feminist thinkers. This book is the first full-length study of the... Read more

         Acknowledgements

         Introduction

1.     Women in Venice

2.     Laura Cereta

3.     Cassandra Fedele

4.     Moderata Fonte

5.     Veronica Franco

6.     Arcangela Tarabotti

Conclusion

          Bibliography

          Index

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Kathleen French is the author of Shakespeare and Happiness. She has a PhD from The University of Sydney and is currently an Honorary Associate of The University of Sydney. She has a particular interest in the role of positive emotion in the early modern period.

“As we emerge from several years of a global pandemic, this timely and uplifting effort to revindicate the lives of early modern women by utilizing positive psychology and the theory of self-determination to consider their happiness is a welcome and innovative approach.”

Professor Stacey Parker Aronson, University of Minnesota Morris

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