Renaissance Fantasies: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction

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Kent State University Press, 1999 - Всего страниц: 214
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 dominate, patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies. 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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Sidney Nashe Anger and the Renaissance Aesthetics of Effeminacy
11
Exchanges of Women and Words Etienne Pasquiers Rewriting of The Courtier
38
Effeminacy and the Anxiety of Originality Astrophil and Stella and the Rime Sparse
63
Prose Femininity and the Prodigal Triangle in the Decameron and The Old Arcadia
82
The Truest Poetry Gender Genre and Class in As You Like It and A Defence of Poetry
113
Illusions of Originality
128
Appendix
133
Notes
137
Bibliography
181
Index
199
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Стр. 7 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Стр. 11 - And now that an overfaint quietness should seem to strew the house for poets, they are almost in as good reputation as the mountebanks at Venice.
Стр. 66 - STELLA oft sees the verie face of wo Painted in my beclowded stormie face: But cannot skill to pitie my disgrace, Not though thereof the cause...
Стр. 10 - Sweet Poesy, that hath anciently had kings, emperors, senators, great captains, such as, besides a thousand others, David, Adrian. Sophocles, Germanicus, not only to favour poets, but to be poets; and of our nearer times can present for her patrons a Robert, king of Sicily, the great King Francis of France, King James of Scotland; such cardinals as Bembus and Bibbiena...
Стр. 8 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...
Стр. 59 - LOVING in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others...
Стр. 13 - ... us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it. I know, some will say it is a mingled language. And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other? Another will say it wanteth grammar.
Стр. 58 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature ; The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Стр. 125 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Стр. 168 - ... so true a lover as Theagenes, so constant a friend as Pylades, so valiant a man as Orlando, so right a prince as Xenophon's Cyrus, so excellent a man every way as Virgil's Aeneas.

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Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and has taught in the English departments at the University of Miami and the University of South Alabama.

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