This is the first comprehensive study of the remarkably rich
tradition of women's writing that flourished in Italy between the
fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Virginia Cox documents
this tradition and both explains its character and scope and offers
a new hypothesis on the reasons for its emergence and decline.
Cox combines fresh scholarship with a revisionist argument that
overturns existing historical paradigms for the chronology of early
modern Italian women's writing and questions the historiographical
commonplace that the tradition was brought to an end by the Counter
Reformation. Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as
artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's
writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects
and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.
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