Manning the margins
Subtitle: masculinity and writing in seventeenth-century France
By: Lewis C. Seifert.
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472070589; 9780472050581
Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Sex role in literature; Homosexuality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Civilizing the margins. The Chevalier de Méré's quest for honnête masculinity; title: Effeminacy and its meanings from court to salon; title: Vincent Voiture and the perils of galanterie; title: Madeleine de Scudéry's tender masculinity; title: Sexuality and the body at the margins. Writing sodomy: satire, secrets, and the "self"; title: Border crossings: for a transgendered Choisy.