High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France

Author:   Kathleen Perry Long
Publisher:   Bristol Publishing Enterprises Inc.,U.S.
Volume:   59
ISBN:  

9780943549910


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 March 2002
Format:   Hardback
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This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious conflict in France, the repeated questioning of religious and royal authority, the revival of Greek scepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fuelled growing doubt concerning the fixed and hierarchical nature of gender distinction; a distinction upon which many felt French culture was dependent for its very survival.

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Author:   Kathleen Perry Long
Publisher:   Bristol Publishing Enterprises Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Bristol Publishing Enterprises Inc.,U.S.
Volume:   59
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.145kg
ISBN:  

9780943549910


ISBN 10:   0943549914
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Louise Labé’s Transgressions.....Cathy Yandell Masculine Rhetoric and the French Blason anatomique.....Jeffery Persels Primal Scenes/Primal Screens: The Homosocial Economy of Dirty Jokes.....Amy Staples Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard’s Witnesses.....Stephen Murphy Mother’s Milk from Father’s Breast: Maternity without Women in Male French Renaissance Lyric.....Kirk Read Montaigne moqueur: “Virgile” and Its Geographies of Gender.....Tom Conley Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites.....Kathleen Long Molière’s Body Politic.....Mitchell Greenberg A Curious Study in “Parallel Lives”: Louis XIV and the Abbé de Choisy.....Virginia M. Marino Pig or Prince?: Murat, d’Aulnoy, and the Limits of Civilized Masculinity.....Lewis C. Seifert Masculinity, Monarchy, and Metaphysics: A Crisis of Authority in Early Modern France....Catharine Randall

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These authors attempt to tease out the developments of masculinity and the male norm in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France that would eventually result in the transformation of such institutions such as marriage, monarchy, the market, and the church, in the period leading up to and after the Revolution. The authors...examine a wide range of sources from pamphlets, fairy tales, jokes, poetry, and medical works to the works of such authors as Montaigne and Labe. --Comitatus High Anxiety is an invaluable and seminal contribution to French literary and cultural history supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections. --Midwest Book Review


High Anxiety is an invaluable and seminal contribution to French literary and cultural history supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections. -Midwest Book Review These authors attempt to tease out the developments of masculinity and the male norm in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France that would eventually result in the transformation of such institutions such as marriage, monarchy, the market, and the church, in the period leading up to and after the Revolution. The authors...examine a wide range of sources from pamphlets, fairy tales, jokes, poetry, and medical works to the works of such authors as Montaigne and Labe. -Comitatus


These authors attempt to tease out the developments of masculinity and the male norm in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France that would eventually result in the transformation of such institutions such as marriage, monarchy, the market, and the church, in the period leading up to and after the Revolution. The authors...examine a wide range of sources from pamphlets, fairy tales, jokes, poetry, and medical works to the works of such authors as Montaigne and Labe. -Comitatus High Anxiety is an invaluable and seminal contribution to French literary and cultural history supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections. -Midwest Book Review


These authors attempt to tease out the developments of masculinity and the male norm in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France that would eventually result in the transformation of such institutions such as marriage, monarchy, the market, and the church, in the period leading up to and after the Revolution. The authors...examine a wide range of sources from pamphlets, fairy tales, jokes, poetry, and medical works to the works of such authors as Montaigne and Lab . --Comitatus High Anxiety is an invaluable and seminal contribution to French literary and cultural history supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections. --Midwest Book Review


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