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Renaissance Fantasies - The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction (Hardcover)
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Renaissance Fantasies - The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction (Hardcover)
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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. While current studies focus on
the implications of writing from the perspective of the
marginalized, Predergast's wide-ranging investigation of polemical
treatises, lyrics, prose fiction, and drama demonstrates how
cultural constructions of gender reflect and refract aesthetic
crises of the early modern period. She establishes how, during the
early modern period, writers metaphorically associated didactic
literature (like the epic) with masculinity and fantastical or
pleasurable literature (like lyric or drama) with femininity or
effeminacy.
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