Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela, 1956-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European fiction--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European fiction.

European fiction--Male authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Europe--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Androgyny (Psychology) in literature.

Aesthetics, Modern--16th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Gender identity in literature.

Femininity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Fantasy in literature.

Men in literature.

History.

Male authors.

European fiction--Renaissance.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

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 feminity and effeminacy. While current studies focus on the implications of writing from the perspective of the marginalized, Prendergast's wide-ranging investigation of polemical treatises, lyrics, prose fiction, and drama demonstrates how cultural constructions of gender reflect and refract aesthetic crises of the early modern period.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-201) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0873386442

OCLC:

40881638