Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela P...
Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela P...
Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.
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Kent, Ohio ; London : Kent State University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N809.39353/10
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English
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x, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Prodigality, Effeminacy, Fantasy -- 1. Sidney, Nashe, Anger, and the Renaissance Aesthetics of Effeminacy -- 2. Exchanges of Women and Words: Etienne Pasquier's Rewriting of The Courtier -- 3. Effeminacy and the Anxiety of Originality: Astrophil and Stella and the Rime Sparse -- 4. Pro...
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Kent, Ohio ; London : Kent State University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1999.
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"Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio's Decameron, Etienne Pasquier's Monophile, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, and Shakes...
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Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.39353/10
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0873386442 :
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809.39353
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991014010999702626
