The Prodigious Muse

The Prodigious Muse Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy

Virginia Cox2011
Juxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.
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