Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance

by Meredith K. Ray

During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections of women writers, arguing that these works were a studied performance of pervasive ideas about gender as well as genre, a form of self-fashioning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802097049
• ISBN13: 9780802097040
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher