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Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
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Chapitre de livre
Auteurs/contributeurs
- Dalton, Susan (Auteur)
- Martin, Claire Emilie (Éditeur)
- Donato, Clorinda (Éditeur)
Titre
Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
Résumé
Biographical writing in the early nineteenth century offers a window onto the malleability of gender norms for Italian women in the period. In the world of letters, women writers deemed worthy of biographical treatment after their deaths were often ascribed masculine traits. Attributes such as intelligence and courage, when they complemented a women’s “feminine essence,” served to illustrate her superiority over her female peers. In this sense, posthumous, laudatory biographies constituted signs of both intellectual and social success of women who could simultaneously abide by the constraints of femininity and move beyond them. The current essay demonstrates the conditions that made departures from gender norms possible following the French Revolution in Venice by studying the cases of Giustina Renier Michiel and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi.
Titre du livre
The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Lieu
Cham
Maison d’édition
Springer International Publishing
Date
2024
Pages
465-481
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-3-031-40494-8
Titre abrégé
Women Worthies?
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26/04/2024 11:12
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Dalton, Susan. « Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy ». Dans The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century, sous la direction de Claire Emilie Martin et Clorinda Donato, 465‑81. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40494-8_25.
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