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Author Jed, Stephanie H, 1953- author.

Title Chaste thinking : the rape of Lucretia and the birth of humanism / by Stephanie H. Jed
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 160 pages) : facsimile
Series Theories of representation and difference
Theories of representation and difference.
Contents 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]
Summary "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
Notes "Facsimile, transcription, and translation of Salutati's Declamatio Lucretiae": pages [133]-152
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index
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Subject Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. Declamatio Lucretiae.
Brutus, Lucius Junius -- In literature
SUBJECT Brutus, Lucius Junius fast
Declamatio Lucretiae (Salutati, Coluccio) fast
Subject Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Lucretia -- in literature
Chastity in literature.
Rape in literature.
Humanism -- History.
Humanists.
Liberty in literature.
Transmission of texts.
humanists (people)
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Chastity in literature
Humanism
Humanists
Liberty in literature
Literature
Rape in literature
Transmission of texts
Verkrachting.
Kuisheid.
Letterkunde.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Literaire thema's.
SUBJECT Rome -- In literature
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. Declamatio Lucretiae. English & Latin
LC no. 88045462
ISBN 0585000964
9780585000961
9786612078996
6612078995