The Rhetoric of Concealment : : Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature / / Rosemary Kegl.
Demonstrating how struggles over gender and class were mediated through formal properties of writing, The Rhetoric of Concealment offers a new framework for the discussion of court literature and middle-class literature in the English Renaissance. Rosemary Kegl offers powerful new readings of works...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Accounting for Social Struggle
- 1. “Those terrible approches”: Sexuality, Social Mobility, and Resisting the Courtliness of Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie
- 2. “Altogether like a falling steeple”: The Politics of Sidney’s Rebellions
- 3. “The adoption of abominable terms”: Middle Classes, Merry Wives, and the Insults That Shape Windsor
- 4. “Euery Gentlemans companion”: Middle-Class Hegemony, Marital Harmony, and the Making of Proverbs in Jack of Newbury
- Afterword: Reading the Culture of Renaissance Criticism— History, Copia, and Commodification
- Index