Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissnce Writing. (= Cambridge Studies in French, Vol. 63).

Gray, Floyd:

ISBN 10: 0521024870 / ISBN 13: 9780521024877

Published by Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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240 pages. Very good. Shrink wrapped. / Sehr guter Zustand. In Folie verschweißt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 475.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissnce Writing. (= Cambridge Studies in French, Vol. 63).
• Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521024870
• ISBN 13: 9780521024877
• Binding: Softcover/Paperback.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 475 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and 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. His new readings of Rabelais, Montaigne, Louise Labé and others, challenge the inherent anachronism of criticism that fails to take account of the cultural context of the period.

Review

"...thought-provoking contribution to early modern French scholarship..." SubStance