Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction

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Label

Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction

Title remainder

the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction

Statement of responsibility

Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast

Creator

• Prendergast, Maria Teresa Micaela, 1956-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Androgyny (Psychology) in literature
• Effeminacy in literature
• Electronic books
• European fiction -- Male authors | History and criticism
• European fiction -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
• Fantasy in literature
• Aesthetics, Modern -- 16th century
• Gender identity in literature
• Men in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
• Femininity in literature

Language

eng

Summary

Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio's Decameron, Etienne Pasquier's Monophile, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, and Shakespeare's As You Like It promote an alternative to the dominate, patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies. She establishes how, during the early modern period, writers metaphorically associated didactic literature (like the epic) with masculinity, and fantastical or pleasurable literature (like Lyric or drama) with femininity or effeminacy

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

809.3/9353

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult