Gendering the Renaissance - 9781644533055

Gendering the RenaissanceText and Context in Early Modern Italy\nAuthor(s): Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater, Anna Wainwright, Suzanne Magnanini, Nathalie Hester, Gabriella Zarri, Emanuela Zanotti Carney, Jennifer Haraguchi, Michael Sherberg, Courtney Quaintance\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Delaware Press, United States\nImprint: University of Delaware Press\nISBN-13: 9781644533055, 978-1644533055\nSynopsis\nThe essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of.