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Imagined Networks in Pre-Modern Italian Literature: Literary Mothers, Literary Sisters presents the untold stories of the literary mothers and sisters in pre-modern Italian literature and the vibrant intellectual networks they forged. The authors argue that these women writers became adoptive references for other authors, often as an alternative to an established canon of textual authority. The proposed concepts of literary motherhood and sisterhood focus on the agency of the writers in choosing a model, rather than adhering to hierarchical structures. The women showcased in this book defied conventions, and are aware of the generative power of their works and regard themselves as literary guiding lights for future authors. They built prolific communities through exchanges, correspondences, debates, oblique conversations, and sometimes subtle allusions that confer authority to each other. The six essays in this book bring to life the figures of Caterina da Siena, Isabella Andreini, Giulia Bigolina, Margherita Costa, Lucrezia Marinella, Arcangela Tarabotti, and the relationship between Gaspara Stampa and Luisa Bergalli, as well as that between Bianca Milesi Mojon and Maria Edgeworth.
Contents
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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