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Author:

Quaintance, Courtney, 1968- author.

Title:

Textual masculinity and the exchange of women in Renaissance Venice / Courtney Quaintance.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Venier, Domenico,--1517-1582.
Italian poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Italian poetry--16th century--History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex in literature.
Women and literature--Venice--Venice--History--16th century.
Salons--Venice--Venice--History--16th century.
Renaissance--Venice.--Venice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-247) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Writing the whore in Renaissance Venice -- Gang rape and literary fame -- Fictional ladies and literary fraternity -- The erotics of Venetian dialect -- Dialect and homosociality from manuscript to print -- Women writers between men: Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

ISBN:

1442649135 (bound)
9781442649132 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898087053

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)