Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature - Rabelais, Brantome, and the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles - Hardback - 2008

Presents an analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe. This text presents a set of questions: Why were early modern readers fascinated by the figure of cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? And, What effect did he have on construction of actual masculinities?
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 300 pages
Format: Hardback
Serie: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World