Chaste thinking : the rape of Lucretia and the birth of humanism /


by Stephanie H Jed.
Bok Engelsk 1989 · Electronic books
Utgitt
Bloomington : : Indiana University Press, , c1989.
Omfang
1 online resource (xi, 160 p. ) : facsim. ;
Opplysninger
Includes index.. - Tum Brutus castigator lacrimarum, the cruelty of Brutus and the politics of philology -- Per hunc castissimum sanguinem, Lucretia's chastity and the alienation from literary material -- In secretis penetralibus, Mercantile writing and the construct of privacy -- Modern humanism and the relation of writing -- Appendix : Facsimile, transcription of Salutati's Declamatio Lucretiae [Salutati, Coluccio]. - "A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism; or the reception and continued transmission of humanist ideology in the U.S. today ; and of a significant but neglected text on Lucretia by Coluccio Salutati .... - Margaret W. Ferguson (back cover).. - "Jed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideological relationship between sexual violence and humanistic discourse."--pub. webpage.
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ISBN
0-253-31340-6

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