Imagined Networks in Pre-Modern Italian Literature

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Giulia Cardillo is associate professor of Italian and coordinator of the Italian Program at James Madison University.

Eleonora Buonocore is associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Calgary.

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This book presents the untold stories of the forgotten literary mothers and sisters of pre-modern Italian literature, and their practices for proposing and adopting alternative models to the male-dominated canon. Six case studies investigate the works of groundbreaking women writers, the networks they built, and the legacy of their writings.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword, by Jane Tylus

Introduction. Literary Mothers and Sisters in Pre-Modern Italian Literature, by Eleonora Buonocore and Giulia Cardillo

Chapter 1. Sisters, Mothers and Daughters: Caterina da Siena's Creation of an Elective Family Through Letters, by Eleonora Buonocore

Chapter 2. Rooting and Uprooting. The Pear Tree as Female Intellect in Bigolina's Urania, by Anna Marra

Chapter 3. Mirroring and Finding Herself in the Pastoral Spring: The Myth of Narcissus in Isabella Andreini's Mirtilla, by Simona Lorenzini

Chapter 4. Misandry and Effeminacy among Seventeenth-Century Female Polemicists: Fonte, Marinella, Tarabotti, and Costa, by Sara E. Díaz

Chapter 5. In Marmi o in Carte: Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli on Art and Poetry, by Giulia Cardillo

Chapter 6. Found in Translation: Bianca Milesi Mojon's Maria Edgeworth, by Raffaella Leproni

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