Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20 by Tarabotti, Arcangela

Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780772721327)

Vendor: Arcangela Tarabotti
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Format: Paperback
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Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20 by Tarabotti, Arcangela

Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20

$31.95
Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20 by Tarabotti, Arcangela

Letters Familiar and Formal: Volume 20

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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Coerced into taking the veil, Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) spent her life protesting the practice of forcing girls into convents. Her fearless defense of women and attacks on patriarchal Venetian society earned her renown and access to the presses. Her publications, however, invited constant controversy. Tarabotti published her Letters Familiar and Formal to protect and enhance her literary reputation while also chronicling contemporary literary society and material existence in an early modern convent. The Letters flaunted Tarabotti's literary accomplishments, humiliated her critics, and advertised her powerful network of allies in Northern Italy and France. The Letters document how Tarabotti established herself as one of the most forceful proponents for women's self-determination in early modern Europe.

Author: Arcangela Tarabotti
ISBN-10: 0772721327
ISBN-13: 9780772721327
Publisher: Iter Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Arcangela Tarabotti
By Arcangela Tarabotti
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Meredith K. Ray is associate professor of Italian at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance (University of Toronto Press, 2009). Lynn Lara Westwater is assistant professor of Italian at The George Washington University. She has published extensively on women's writing in early modern Venice.

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