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Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
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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 experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible
of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in
realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first
studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women
together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry's work in
the world. These poets' works challenge the traditional boundaries
drawn around lyric's utility. They show us how poems could be sites
of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are
texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of
shaping it.
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