296 Pages
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Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Acknowledgments, PART I, Literary and Sociohistorical Context, PART II, Making Gender Through Petrarchism, Afterword, Volume Bibliography, Index
Biography
Shannon McHugh is Associate Professor of Italian and French at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is co-translator of Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna (Iter Press, 2015) and co-editor of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (University of Delaware Press, 2020) and Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).
