Description: Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader contexts and considers how gender reflects and reinvents conventional narratives of literary change.
Brief description: Virginia Cox is a professor of Italian and director of graduate studies at New York University. She is author of The Prodigious Muse: Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy and Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, both published by Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: Exhaustive and insightful . . . This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.
--Elissa Weaver, Renaissance Quarterly