| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 227 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in French ; 63
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Cambridge studies in French ; 63.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Discourses of misogyny. Rule of rhetoric. 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. "I" as another. Pernette du Gullet's Platonism. Louise Labe's Petrarchism -- 4. Women in Montaigne's life. Montaigne's women. Marie de Gournay's Montaigne -- 5. Sexual marginality. Reading homosexuality. Cross-dressing. Anadrogyne myth. Brantome, medical discourse, and the makings of pornography. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gray, Floyd, 1926- Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 052177327X (DLC) 99045327 (OCoLC)42080398 |
| ISBN |
0511010788 (electronic book) |
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9780511010781 (electronic book) |
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052177327X (electronic book) |
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9780521773270 (electronic book) |
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0511034628 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511034626 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511118473 (electronic book) |
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9780511118470 (electronic book) |
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9780511485770 (electronic book) |
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0511485778 (electronic book) |
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9780511049873 (electronic book) |
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0511049870 (electronic book) |
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0511151128 |
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9780511151125 |
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