Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Floyd, 1926-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in French ; 63.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77565
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Discourses of misogyny. The rule of rhetoric. The Querelle des femmes: rhetoric or reality? Antifeminism and marriage in Rabelais's Tuers Livre
  • 2. Irony and the sexual other. Jeanne Flore and erotic desire: feminism or male fantasy? Reading and writing in the tenth story of the Hepatameron
  • 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering. The "I" as another. Pernette du Gullet's Platonism. Louise Labe's Petrarchism
  • 4. The women in Montaigne's life. Montaigne's women. Marie de Gournay's Montaigne
  • 5. Sexual marginality. Reading homosexuality. Cross-dressing. The anadrogyne myth. Brantome, medical discourse, and the makings of pornography.