Intertextual masculinity in French Renaissance literature : Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles
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Intertextual masculinity in French Renaissance literature : Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles
（Women and gender in the early modern world）
Ashgate, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Masculinity as an intertextual concept in legal, pastoral, and clerical documents of the late Middle Ages
- Masculinities in the intertext: les Cent nouvelles nouvelles
- Intertextual masculinity in Rabelais's Tiers Livre
- Toward unstable masculinity in Brantôme's Recueil des dames
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Description
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and BrantAme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Masculinity as an Intertextual Concept in Legal, Pastoral, and Clerical Documents of the Late Middle Ages
- Chapter 2 Masculinities in the Intertext
- Chapter 3 Intertextual Masculinity in Rabelais's Tiers Livre
- Chapter 4 Toward Unstable Masculinity in Brantome's Recueil des dames
- Chapter 101 Conclusion
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