The currency of Eros : women's love lyric in Europe, 1540-1620 / Ann Rosalind Jones
1990, 1st edition. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425963
ISBN: 0253331498
Physical description; xi, 242 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. Contents; Introduction: Imitation, Negotiation, Appropriation -- The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of Women's Love Poetry -- Writing to Live: Pedagogical Poetics in Isabella Whitney and Catherine des Roches -- The Poetics of Group Identity: Self-Commemoration through Dialogue in Pernette du Guillet and Tullia d'Aragona -- Feminine Pastoral as Heroic Martyrdom: Gaspara Stampa and Mary Wroth -- Eros Equalized: Literary Cross-Dressing and the Defense of Women in Louise Labe and Veronica Franco. Subjects; 1450-1600. 1450-1699. Love poetry, European History and criticism. European literature Women authors History and criticism. European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. European literature History and criticism.
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