Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature
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adultery narratives
Author_David P. LaGuardia
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Catullus
cent
Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Chambre Des Comptes
Claude Gaignebet
clericalis
Dames Galantes
disciplina
early
early modern sexuality
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
gender identity formation
Henri III
Henry III
historical gender studies
Il Ne
Intertextual Masculinity
King Henry III
Le Bon
Le Tiers Livre
legal history France
Les Dames
livre
Male Female Sexual Relations
masculine
masculinity construction in Renaissance texts
nouvelles
pastoral literature analysis
Pierre De Bourdeille
Rabelais's Text
Rabelais's Tiers Livre
Rabelais's Work
rabelaiss
Rabelais’s Text
Rabelais’s Tiers Livre
Rabelais’s Work
Sa Femme
Si Bon
subject
Summa Confessorum
tiers
Tiers Livre
Woman's Private Parts
Woman’s Private Parts
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754662167
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and Brantôme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.
David LaGuardia is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College
