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Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantome, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles - Women and Gender in the Early Modern World David P. LaGuardia New edition
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantome, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles - Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
David P. LaGuardia
Presents an analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe. This text presents a set of questions: Why were early modern readers fascinated by the figure of cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? And, What effect did he have on construction of actual masculinities?
300 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 28, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754662167 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 262 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 16 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Poska, Professor Allyson M. |
| Series Editor | Zanger, Professor Abby |