Renaissance fantasies, the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction, Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
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Renaissance fantasies, the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction, Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Renaissance fantasies
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
Sub title
the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction
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
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- Fantasy in literature
- European fiction + Male authors + History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Androgyny (Psychology) in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
- European fiction -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
- Effeminacy in literature
- Aesthetics, Modern -- 16th century
- Femininity in literature
- Men in literature
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- Contributor1
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- Subject12
- Fantasy in literature
- European fiction + Male authors + History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Androgyny (Psychology) in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
- European fiction -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
- Effeminacy in literature
- Aesthetics, Modern -- 16th century
- Femininity in literature
- Men in literature
- Content1