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020 $a9780198818960$qhardcover
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035 $a(OCoLC)1013173942
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050 4 $aPQ4055.W6$bL66 2018
082 04 $a850.9/9287$223
100 1 $aLombardi, Elena,$eauthor.
245 10 $aImagining the woman reader in the age of Dante /$cElena Lombardi.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $a278 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index.
520 8 $aThis book brings to light a new character in medieval literature: that of the woman reader and interlocutor. It does so by establishing a dialogue between literary studies, gender studies, the history of literacy, and the material culture of the book in medieval times. From Guittone d'Arezzo's piercing critic, the 'villainous woman', to the mysterious Lady who bids Guido Cavalcanti to write his grand philosophical song, to Dante's female co-editors in the 'Vita Nova' and his great characters of female readers, such as Francesca and Beatrice in the 'Comedy', all the way to Boccaccio's overtly female audience, this particular interlocutor appears to be central to the construct of textuality and the construction of literary authority. This volume explores the figure of the woman reader by contextualizing her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her.
650 0 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aItalian literature$yTo 1400$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
852 00 $bglx$hPQ4055.W6$iL66 2018