Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice

Courtney Quaintance

Published by University of Toronto Press 2015

Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice

Courtney Quaintance

In the series Toronto Italian Studies

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619524

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About this book

Based on archival work and Quaintance’s exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature.

Author / Editor information

Quaintance Courtney :

Courtney Quaintance is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

Chiara Girardi:

‘This book is a major contribution to the field of early modern gender studies and a groundbreaking text that brilliantly approaches the understudies issues related to masculine identity.’

Deanna Shemek:

‘Textual Masculinities is full of new information, even about well-known subjects like Stampa and Franco… It includes a wealth of Venetian poetry that she has translated and published for the first time.’

Paula C. Clarke:

‘Textual Masculinity is an important work providing innovative, more sophisticated, and broader understanding of the production of literature on women in sixteenth-century Venice. It will have to be taken into account in any future study the Renaissance Venetian literary world.’

Mary Gallucci:

‘Quintances’ translations are lively and effective… We have much to learn from the material she analyzes.’

Holly S. Hurlburt:

‘Textual Masculinity elegantly weaves together social class and language, and cultures of manuscript exchange and print, academies and libertinism, in the late Venetian Renaissance.’

Gerry Milligan, Department of World Languages and Literatures, College of Staten Island, City University of New York:

“Courtney Quaintance’s book will change the way scholars think of early modern pornographic literature. Her broad and meticulous research shows that these texts were not merely dalliances that circulated in dark corners. They were integral to the formation of important networks of men, and informed the public literary endeavours of these individuals.”

Ann Rosalind Jones, Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, Smith College:

“Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is a powerful and exciting book. A thought-provoking study of the homosocial circuits and writing in which ferocious misogyny and murderous contempt bonded men against women, Courtney Quaintance’s work is lucid and approachable. Her expertise in Venetian dialect makes this study stand out in work on sixteenth-century Italian poetry, as does her painstaking archival work on manuscript writings and biographical data identifying the writers she analyses.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Writing The Whore In Renaissance Venice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Gang Rape And Literary Fame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter Two .Fictional Ladies And Literary Fraternity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Three. The Erotics Of Venetian Dialect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter Four .Dialect And Homosociality From Manuscript To Print Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter Five. Women Writers Between Men: Gaspara Stampa And Veronica Franco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272

eBook

Published: April 28, 2015
ISBN: 9781442619524