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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Floyd, 1926- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in French ; 63.

Cambridge studies in French ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Sex in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gender, Rhetoric, & Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

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. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11980-4

0-511-01078-8

1-280-15470-5

0-511-11847-3

0-511-15112-8

0-511-31048-X

0-511-48577-8

0-511-04987-0

OCLC:

475870749