Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Zusammenfassung In this book 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. Gray offers new readings of a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist! feminist! autobiographical! homosexual and medical. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Discourses of misogyny; 2. Irony and the sexual other; 3. Anonymity and the poetics of regendering; 4. The women in Montaigne's life; 5. Sexual marginality; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gray Floyd, Floyd Gray, Floyd (University of Michigan Gray
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02487-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies