High Anxiety : : Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France /

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

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 reli...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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