Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Cultural Approach

ISBN-13: 9780815390268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 229 str.

Julie Campbell

Opis

A comparative analysis, this study examines the interactions of early modern male and female writers within the context of literary circles. In particular, Campbell examines how the querelle des femmes as a discursive rhetorical tradition of praise and blame influenced perceptions of well-educated women who were part of literary circles in Italy, France, and England from approximately 1530 to 1650. To gain a better sense of how querelle language and issues were used for or against learned women writers, Campbell aligns selected works by female and male writers, pairing them to analyze how the woman writer responds, deflects, or rewrites the male writer's ideological script on women.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Tullia d'Aragona, Sperone Speroni, and the inscription of Salon Personae; The Querelle over Silvia: La Mirtilla and Aminta in dialogue; Pastoral defenses and the nymphs of the Salon Vert; Louise Lab l'Imparfaicte Amye; The Amyes of the English court; Querelle resonance and literary circle ritual in English romances; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.