Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy
by George McClure
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Pub Date Jun 04 2013 | Archive Date May 27 2013
Description
Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.
Beneath the frivolous exterior of such games as occasions for idle banter, flirtation, and seduction, there often lay a lively contest for power and agency, and the opportunity for conventional women to demonstrate their intellect, to achieve a public identity, and even to model new behaviour and institutions in the non-ludic world. By tapping into the records and cultural artifacts of these games, George McClure recovers a realm of female fame that has largely escaped the notice of modern historians, and in so doing reveals a cohort of spirited, intellectual women outside of the courts.
GEORGE McCLURE is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama.
Advance Praise
“George McClure provides a fascinating portrait of civic engagement and protofeminist activism in this well-written, well-researched study. It is a major contribution to research, with important findings and commentary regarding game-playing, poetry-reading, and the creation of emblems, insignias, and nicknames that will be of interest to scholars of women’s literary history and of academic and salon culture.”
Julie Campbell, Department of English, University of Eastern Illinois
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EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781442646599 |
PRICE | CA$75.00 (CAD) |