Strong Voices, Weak History
Subtitle: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy
Contributors: Pamela Joseph Benson (Editor); Victoria Kirkham (Editor)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: February 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780472068814
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Renaissance, 1450-1600; History: World; European literature; Women's Studies - General; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Renaissance; Europe; Medieval; Social Science / Women's Studies; European - General; Women Authors; Congresses; History and criticism; Literature, Medieval
First sentence: A distinctive feature of the Italian literary tradition-shared only, perhaps, to some extent, by the French-is its precocious and definitive acceptance into the canon of a number of early modern women writers.