Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism

by Stephanie H. Jed

Book Overview

"A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism." -- Margaret W. Ferguson ..". provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... " -- Rocky Mountain Review ..". provocative and fascinating... " -- Seventeenth-Century News "This book is boldly and originally conceived... " -- Comparative Literature Studies Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205069
• ISBN13: 9780253205063
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.