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Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction
- Title
- Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.
- Author
- Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela, 1956-
- Publication
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1999.
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Details
- Description
- x, 214 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Women and literature > Europe > History > 16th century
- Androgyny (Psychology) in literature
- Men in literature
- European fiction > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
- Aesthetics, Modern > 16th century
- Femininity in literature
- Fantasy in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- European fiction > Male authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201) and index.
- Contents
- Sidney, Nashe, anger, and the Renaissance aesthetics of effeminacy -- Exchanges of women and words: Etienne Pasquire's rewriting of The courtier -- Effeminacy and the anxiety of originality: Astrophil and Stella and the Rime sparse -- Prose, femininity, and the prodigal triangle in the Decameron and the old arcadia -- "The truest poetry": gender, genre and class in As you like it and A defense of poetry.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-1685
- ISBN
- 0873386442 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99021763
- OCLC
- 40881638
- Author
- Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela, 1956-
- Title
- Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.
- Imprint
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-1685