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- Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Medieval Imagination in the "Orlando furioso"
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page and Copyright
- pp. iii-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- Bibliography
- pp. 227-254
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823249381
Related ISBN(s)
9780823240371
MARC Record
OCLC
821725647
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-22
Language
English
Open Access
No