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Search - Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation

Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation
Author: Katharina M. Wilson (Editor)

The dawn of humanism in the Renaissance presented privileged women with great opportunities for personal and intellectual growth. Sexual and social roles still determined the extent to which a woman could pursue education and intellectual accomplishment, but it was possible through the composition of poetry or prose to temporarily offset hierarc... more »hies of gender, to become equal to men in the act of creation.

Edited by Katharina M. Wilson, this anthology introduces the works of twenty-five women writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, among them Marie Dentière, a Swiss evangelical reformer whose writings were so successful they were banned during her lifetime; Gaspara Stampa, a cultivated courtesan of Venetian aristocratic circles who wrote lyric poetry that has earned her comparisons to Michelangelo and Tasso; Hélisenne de Crenne, a French aristocrat who embodied the true spirit of the Renaissance feminist, writing both as novelist and as champion of her sex; Helene Kottanner, Austrian chambermaid to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary whose memoirs recall her daring theft of the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen for her esteemed mistress; and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, the first Englishwoman known to write a full-length work of fiction and compose a significant body of secular poetry.

Offering a seldom seen counterpoint to literature written by men, Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation presents prose and poetry that have never before appeared in English, as well as writings that have rarely been available to the nonspecialist. The women whose writings are included here are united by a keen awareness of the social limitations placed upon their creative potential, of the strained relationship between their gender and their work. This concern invests their writings with a distinctive voice--one that carries the echoes of a male aesthetic while boldly declaring battle against it.

ITALY. Gaspara Stamps : Aphrodite's priestess, love's martyr / Frank J. Warnke Vittoria Colonna : child, woman, poet / Joseph Gibaldi Veronica Gambara : a Renaissance gentildonna / Richard Poss Saint Catherine of Genoa : mystic of pure love / Donald Christopher Nugent Saint Catherine of Bologna : Franciscan mystic / Joseph R. Berrigan FRANCE. Marguerite of Navarre : the Heptameron, a simulacrum of love / Marcel Tetel Louise LabeÌÂ : poet of Lyon / Jeanne Prine Dianne de Poitiers : the woman behind the legend / Sandra Sider HeÌÂlisenne de Crenne : champion of women's rights / Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring Pernette du Guillet : the Lyonnais neoplantonist / Ann Rosalind Jones Les Dames des Roches : the French humanist scholars / Anne R. Larsen Marie DentieÌÂre : a propagandist for reform / Thomas Head GERMAN PRINCIPALITIES/HABSBURG EMPIRE. Caritas Pirckheimer : the Nuremburg abbess / Gwendolyn Bryant Anna Owena Hoyers : a view of practical living / Brigitte Edith Archibald Helene Kottanner : the Austrian chambermaid / Maya C. Bijvoet Margaret of Austria : regent of the Netherlands / Charity Cannon Willard THE LOW COUNTRIES. Anna Bijns : Germanic Sappho / Kristiaan P.G. Aercke SPAIN. Saint Teresa of Jesus : the human value of the divine / Ciriaco MoroÌÂn-Arroyo HUNGARY. Lea RaÌÂskai : a Domincan author / Suzanne Fonay Wemple ENGLAND. Margaret More Roper : the learned woman in Tudor England / Elizabeth McCutcheon Mary Sidney : Countess of Pembroke / Coburn Freer Elizabeth I : Queen of England / Frances Teague Mary Sidney : Lady Wroth / Margaret Patterson Hannay Katherine Philips : the matchless Ordina / Elizabeth H. Hageman Appendix: Chronology of literary andfhistorial figures and major events

ISBN-13: 9780820308661
ISBN-10: 0820308668
Publication Date: 8/1987
Pages: 680
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Paperback
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History >> World >> Women in History
Literature & Fiction >> Books & Reading >> Women Writers & Feminist Theory
Literature & Fiction >> General >> Classics
Literature & Fiction >> History & Criticism >> Movements & Periods >> Renaissance
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