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Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing / Floyd Gray.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in French ; 63.Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511010788
  • 9780511010781
  • 052177327X
  • 9780521773270
  • 0511034628
  • 9780511034626
  • 0511118473
  • 9780511118470
  • 9780511485770
  • 0511485778
  • 9780511049873
  • 0511049870
  • 0511151128
  • 9780511151125
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing.DDC classification:
  • 840.9/003 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ239 .G73 2000eb
Other classification:
  • 18.25
Online resources:
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.
Review: "In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.

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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.

"In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry."--Jacket.

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