Title: Renaissance Fantasies
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.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Women and literature, Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Modern Aesthetics, Male authors, Sex role in literature, Men in literature, Femininity in literature, European fiction, Gender identity in literature, Fantasy in literature, Effeminacy in literature, Roman européen, Histoire et critique, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Androgynie dans la littérature, Esthétique, Identité sexuelle dans la littérature, Féminité dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Fantasmes dans la littérature, Hommes dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Literary, Renaissance