High Anxiety : : Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France / / ed. by Kathleen Perry Long.

• MitwirkendeR: Conley, Tom,; Greenberg, Mitchell,; Long, Kathleen,; Marino, Virginia M.,; Murphy, Stephen,; Persels, Jeffery,; Randall, Catharine,; Read, Kirk,; Seifert, Lewis C.,; Staples, Amy,; Yandell, Cathy,
• HerausgeberIn: Long, Kathleen Perry,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious conflict in France, the repeated questioning of religious and royal authority, the revival of Greek skepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fueled growing doubt concerning the fixed and hierarchical nature of gender distinction, a distinction upon which many felt French culture was dependent for its very survival.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Louise Labé's Transgressions -- Masculine Rhetoric and the French Blason anatomique -- Primal Scenes/ Primal Screens: The Homosocial Economy of Dirty Jokes -- Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard's Witnesses -- Mother's Milk from Father's Breast: Maternity without Women in Male French Renaissance Lyric -- Montaigne moqueur: "Virgile" and Its Geographies of Gender -- Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites -- Molière's Body Politic -- A Curious Study in "Parallel Lives": Louis XIV and the Abbé de Choisy -- Pig or Prince? Murat, d'Aulnoy, and the Limits of Civilized Masculinity -- Masculinity, Monarchy, and Metaphysics: A Crisis of Authority in Early Modern France -- Contributors -- Index