High Anxiety : Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France /

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Imprint:	University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2002
Description:	1 online resource (256 p.)
Language:	English
Series:	Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 59
Subject:	Anxiety in literature. French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. Masculinity -- France.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13919003

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Other authors / contributors:	Conley, Tom, contributor. Greenberg, Mitchell, contributor. Long, Kathleen Perry, editor. Long, Kathleen, contributor. Marino, Virginia M., contributor. Murphy, Stephen, contributor. Persels, Jeffery, contributor. Randall, Catharine, contributor. Read, Kirk, contributor. Seifert, Lewis C., contributor. Staples, Amy, contributor. Yandell, Cathy, contributor.
ISBN:	9780271090979
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
Summary:	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 skepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fueled 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.
Standard no.:	10.1515/9780271090979

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Louise Labé's Transgressions
Masculine Rhetoric and the French Blason anatomique
Primal Scenes/ Primal Screens: The Homosocial Economy of Dirty Jokes
Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard's Witnesses
Mother's Milk from Father's Breast: Maternity without Women in Male French Renaissance Lyric
Montaigne moqueur: "Virgile" and Its Geographies of Gender
Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites
Molière's Body Politic
A Curious Study in "Parallel Lives": Louis XIV and the Abbé de Choisy
Pig or Prince? Murat, d'Aulnoy, and the Limits of Civilized Masculinity
Masculinity, Monarchy, and Metaphysics: A Crisis of Authority in Early Modern France
Contributors
Index

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