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Creator
Date
2012
Location
New York,
New York (State)
United States
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xii, 268 p.
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 264395
Folger call number: PQ4572.A3 S76 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350005
Folger call number: PQ4572.A3 S76 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350005
Summary
"Genealogies of Fiction is a study of gender, dynastic politics, and intertextuality in medieval and Renaissance chivalric epic, focused on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso. Relying on the direct study of manuscripts and incunabula, this project challenges the fixed distinction between medieval and early modern texts and reclaims medieval popular epic as a key source for the Furioso. Tracing the formation of the character of the warrior woman, from the amazon to Bradamante, the book analyzes the process of gender construction in early modern Italy. By reading the tension between the representations of women as fighters, lovers, and mothers, this study shows how the warrior woman is a symbolic center for the construction of legitimacy in the complex web of fears and expectations of the Northern Italian Renaissance court"--
Notes
Edition
1st ed
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Also known as
Extended title: Genealogies of fiction : women warriors and the dynastic imagination in the Orlando furioso / Eleonora Stoppino
Subjects
Related names
author: Stoppino, Eleonora
subject: Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533
subject: Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533