Kissing the Wild Woman
Giulia Bigolina''s (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina''s greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and inclu...
Giulia Bigolina''s (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina''s greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and inclu...
