Renaissance Fantasies
Subtitle: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780873386449
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers; Renaissance, 1450-1600; History and criticism; Novel; Special Subjects In Literature; Women and literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Renaissance; Fiction; European fiction; General; 16th century; Europe; History; Male authors
Description: "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 dominant, patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies."--BOOK JACKET.