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Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe - A Cross-Cultural Approach (Hardcover)
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Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe - A Cross-Cultural Approach (Hardcover)
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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. She focuses first on the
courtesan Tullia d'Aragona's response in her Dialogo della infinita
di amore to Sperone Speroni's Dialogo di amore, and contrasts the
actress/writer Isabella Andreini's pastoral La Mirtilla with
Torquato Tasso's Aminta. She then discusses the influence of
Italian actresses upon the manners and mores of French women of the
Valois court, especially focusing on performative aspects of French
women's participation in court and salon rituals. To that end, she
examines the influential salon of the aristocratic, learned
Claude-Catherine de Clermont, duchesse de Retz, who encouraged the
writing of positive querelle rhetoric in the form of Petrarchan,
Neoplatonic encomiastic poetry to buttress her reputation and that
of her female friends. Next, Campbell reads Louise Lab D't de Folie
et d'Amour against Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire premier to
illustrate the tensions between a traditional and nontraditional
querelle stance. She then discusses Continental influence upon
English writers in the context of the Sidney circle in England.
Moving to the closet dramas of the Sidney circle, Campbell examines
the solidarity these writers demonstrated with nontraditional
stances on querelle issues, and, finally, she explores how three
generations of English literary circles con
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