{"product_id":"9781487546403","title":"Courting Celebrity","description":"Author: Adrienne Ward\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487546403\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italian women poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener\u0026amp;#x27;s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese\u0026amp;#x27;s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourting Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese\u0026amp;#x27;s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese\u0026amp;#x27;s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese\u0026amp;#x27;s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese\u0026amp;#x27;s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. In doing so, this text illustrates women\u0026amp;#x27;s practice in two key literary genres, poetry and autobiography, and illuminates the strategies of women\u0026amp;#x27;s self-fashioning and pursuit of celebrity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919586476190,"sku":"ING-9781487546403","price":65.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487546403.jpg?v=1782813857","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487546403","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}