Reviews for Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance

The average rating for Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-12 00:00:00 Bradley Ecker Great book for anyone interested in Romanticism, that's focused on some of the most well known female voices within the movement and their echoes that still reverberate today. It reflects on Mme. de Stael's "Corinne", seeing it as a critic to masculinist romanticism, and about the literary responses written to this book by Mary Shelley -"Valperga"-, Bettina Brentano -"Die Günderrode"- and George Sand - "Consuelo" and "La Comtesse de Rudolstadt", in which they tried to improve a feminist worldview and a particular approach to art and creation. Through this common effort, these awesome women critiqued and gave life to alternative models to the reified romantic ones that were most masculinist and oppressive to women: the poetess or abandoned women, the self-absorbed and self-destructive melancholiac and the Byronic, Napoleonic or Promethean titan. Their legacy is impressive.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-11-21 00:00:00 David Parsons Not a biography but a treatise on why Zipes believes Andersen wrote as he did and how publishers & filmmakers have presented and/or adapted Andersen's stories.