Textual masculinity and the exchange of women in Renaissance Venice /
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| Author / Creator: | Quaintance, Courtney, 1968- author. |
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| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian studies Toronto Italian studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11242769 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the Whore in Renaissance Venice; Textual Masculinity; Puttana, Meretrice, Cortigiana: What's in a Name?; Writing the Courtesan; Prostitutes, Pimps, and Bullies: Venetian Literature "alla bulesca"; Textual Masculinity and Literary Fraternity; 1 Gang Rape and Literary Fame; La puttana errante: The Whore-Errant between Men; La Zaffetta: Rape as Literary Fraternity; Angela Zaffetta, cortigiana da vero; Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Fame; 2 Fictional Ladies and Literary Fraternity.
- Academies, Salons, and Other Sodalities in Sixteenth-Century VeniceThe Virtual Salon; Petrarchan Praise and Literary Fraternity; 3 The Erotics of Venetian Dialect; The Uses of Dialect; Ogni saor: The Flavours of Dialect; "Bella istoria": Helena Artusi, Dialect Whore; Angelic Whores and Homoerotic Triangles; 4 Dialect and Homosociality from Manuscript to Print; "Rime in lingua veneziana di diversi"; La caravana: An Anthology of Pleasure; Versi alla venitiana; 5 Women Writers between Men: Gaspara Stampa and Veronica Franco; Stampa, Franco, and the Sexual Politics of Venetian Literary Culture.
- Gaspara StampaStampa as Literary Organizer; Veronica Franco; Poetry, Prostitution, and the Currency of Collaboration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.