Prodigious muse, the: women's writing in counter-reformation italy
Auteur :
Cox, Virginia
Éditeur :
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN :
9781421400327
Date de publication :
27 oct. 2011
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,4 cm
Poids :
771 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.