Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism: No. 506 (A Midland Book) - Softcover

Jed, Stephanie H.

 
9780253205063: Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism: No. 506 (A Midland Book)

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""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 StudiesJed 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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9780253313409: Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation & Difference) (Theories of Representation and Difference)

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ISBN 10:  0253313406 ISBN 13:  9780253313409
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr, 1989
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