The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics : : Readings in Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau / / Melissa Matthes.
The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different eras-Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau-retell the story of the ra...
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Conversation Between Republicanism and Feminism
- 2 Livy and the Repetition of Republican Foundations
- 3 La Mandragola and the Seduction of Lucrezia
- 4 The Seriously Comedic, or Why Machiavelli's Lucrezia Is Not Livy's Virtuous Roman
- 5 The Paradox of Rousseau's Politics and the Return to the Founding
- 6 Nouvelle Héloïse and the Supplement of Sexual Difference
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index