{"product_id":"kissing-the-wild-woman-9781487526221","title":"Kissing the Wild Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) \u003cem\u003eUrania\u003c\/em\u003e (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In \u003cem\u003eKissing the Wild Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian.\u003cem\u003e Kissing the Wild Woman\u003c\/em\u003e's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Nissen offers to the modern reader of Bigolina’s Urania a comprehensive and erudite perspective on this author’s place in literary history…This is a book that will be useful to scholars in all fields whose research depends on historicizing and theorizing genre, gender, and representation.’ -- Stephanie Jed * Renaissance Quarterly; vol 65:03:2012 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   1  The Reformation of the Prose Romance  Bigolina's Cultural Formation  Elements of the Prose Romance  The Plot and Characters of Urania  The Prose Romance According to Boccaccio  Urania in Its Literary Context  Bigolina's Defense of Women  2  Writing a Portrait    Bigolina and Aretino   Portraiture in Urania    The Caricature of Titian   Of Mirrors, Istoria and Women in the Arts  3  Ekphrasis and the Paragone   Ekphrasis in Western Literature  Bigolina and the Paragone  The Judgment of Paris  Descriptio Mulieris  Bigolina's Two Venuses  The Book as Object  4  The Sight of the Beautiful  Beauty and the Senses in Urania   Sight in the Doctrines of Love  The Body, the Gaze, and the Arts  The Woman's Portrait as Gift  5  Kissing the Wild Woman  Wildness in Urania  Urania's (Nearly) Mad Flight  Femina Salvatica  The Game of the Senses  Conclusion   Appendix: Bigolina's Will in the State Archive of Padua  Text and Translation  Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409158021463,"sku":"9781487526221","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487526221.jpg?v=1730505681","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kissing-the-wild-woman-9781487526221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}