Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781442649132
Subjects: Italian poetry, history and criticism; Women in literature; Sex in literature; Women and literature; Venice (italy), history; Masculinity in literature; Salons
Description: Analyzes the pornographic poetry, letters, plays, and verse dialogues written in poet Domenico Venier's social circle, showing how male writers created female characters who were defiled and available to all. Also shows how two women writers with ties to the salon appropriated and transformed these tropes of female sexuality.