Renaissance fantasies : the gendering of aesthetics in early modern fiction / / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast

• Autore: Prendergast Maria Teresa Micaela <1956->
• Pubblicazione: Kent, OH, : Kent State University Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/9353
• Soggetto topico: European fiction - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism; European fiction - Male authors - History and criticism; Women and literature - Europe - History - 16th century; Androgyny (Psychology) in literature; Aesthetics, Modern - 16th century; Gender identity in literature; Femininity in literature; Sex role in literature; Fantasy in literature; Men in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-201) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Prodigality, Effeminacy, Fantasy -- 1. Sidney, Nashe, Anger, and the Renaissance Aesthetics of Effeminacy -- 2. Exchanges of Women and Words: Etienne Pasquier's Rewriting of The Courtier -- 3. Effeminacy and the Anxiety of Originality: Astrophil and Stella and the Rime Sparse -- 4. Prose, Femininity, and the Prodigal Triangle in the Decameron and The Old Arcadia -- 5. "The Truest Poetry": Gender, Genre, and Class in As You Like It and A Defence of Poetry -- Conclusion: Illusions of Originality -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Renaissance fantasies
• ISBN: 1-61277-223-4; 0-585-24402-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812267003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II