Strong voices, weak history : early women writers & canons in England, France & Italy /
Benson, Pamela Joseph,editor.
Kirkham, Victoria,editor.
Results of a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women writers and the canon in sixteenth-century Italy: the case of Vittoria Colonna / Virginia Cox -- A female tradition?: women's dialogue writing in sixteenth-century France / Janet Levarie Smarr -- Strong voices, weak minds?: the defenses of Eve by Isotta Nogarola and Christine de Pizan, who found themselves in Simone de Beauvoir's situation / Thelma S. Fenster -- The canon of religious life: Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St. Clare of Assisi / E. Ann Matter -- Christine de Pizan: gender and the new vernacular canon / Kevin Brownlee -- Women writers in renaissance Italy: courtly origins of new literary canons / Fabio Finotti -- Sappho on the Arno: the brief fame of Laura Battiferra / Victoria Kirkham -- The place of female mysticism in the Italian literary canon / Armando Maggi -- Thomas Bentley's monument of matrons: the earliest anthology of English women's texts / John N. King -- The collector's cabinet: Lodovico Domenichi's gallery of women / Deanna Shemek -- Recollecting the renaissance: Luisa Bergalli's Componimenti poetici (1726) / Stuart Curran -- Bad press: modern editors versus early modern women poets (Tullia d'Aragona, Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco) / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Fascist appropriations: the case of Jolanda De Blasi's Le scrittrici italiane / Lina Insana -- A woman for all seasons: the reinvention of Anne Askew / Elaine V. Beilin.
European literature
European literature
Literature, Medieval
Littérature européenne
Écrits de femmes européens
Écrits de femmes médiévaux
European literature
European literature
European literature
Literature, Medieval