The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy

by Virginia Cox

Book Overview

In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy--who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more closely one particular moment in this history, in many ways the most remarkable for the richness and range of women's literary output.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421400324
• ISBN13: 9781421400327
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"