| Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing Contributor(s): Gray, Floyd (Author), Floyd, Gray (Author), Sheringham, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521024870 ISBN-13: 9780521024877 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: 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 Labe and others, challenge the inherent anachronism of criticism that fails to take account of the cultural context of the period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 840.900 |
| Lexile Measure: 1730 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Lab and others, challenge the inherent anachronism of criticism that fails to take account of the cultural context of the period. |