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Chaste Thinking

Chaste Thinking The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism - Theories of Representation and Difference

Hardback (01 Jun 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

""A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism."" -- Margaret W. Ferguson

.."". provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... "" -- Rocky Mountain Review

.."". provocative and fascinating... "" -- Seventeenth-Century News

""This book is boldly and originally conceived... "" -- Comparative Literature Studies

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.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253313409
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 872.04
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 500g
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 18mm