Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

by Floyd Gray

Book Overview

Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues--misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical--Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. His new readings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024870
• ISBN13: 9780521024877
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"