Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de' Medici murdered Alessandro de' Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino's assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into brilliant conversation figures including the Venetian nun and political theorist Archangela Tarabotti, the French feminist writer Hortense Allart, and others in a study that closely examines the material bases-manuscripts, letters, books, archives, and bodies-of writing as generators of social relations that organize and conserve knowledge in particular political arrangements. In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed.

Republicanism --- Republicanism in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Italian literature --- Political science --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- alessandro de medici. --- chaste thinking. --- classical scholar. --- cultural studies scholars. --- early modern cultural studies. --- european archives. --- european family history. --- european history. --- european libraries. --- european literacy. --- european literature. --- european political history. --- family and gender. --- history of republicanism. --- italian history. --- italian literary criticism. --- italian scholars. --- literature interpretation. --- literature professors. --- lorenzino de medici. --- republican politics. --- republican thought. --- social structures.