The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
by
Maria Teres Micaela Prendergast
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
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,...