Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture - 9780807892879
Un libro in lingua di Reeser Todd W. edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2006
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Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and lack in order to exist, what Reeser terms "moderate masculinity" requires two non-moderate others--one incarnating excess and one embodying lack--for its definition. This type of alterity takes a number of different forms--including women/effeminacy, the new world native, the nobility, the hermaphrodite, and the sodomite. The book begins with a reading of this brand of masculinity in Aristotle and then proceeds to textual analyses of canonical and non-canonical writers of the Renaissance, such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Erasmus, L„ry, and Artus. These writers are placed in dialogue with key cultural sites where this unstable model operates--especially pedagogy, marriage, male-male friendship, travel narratives, politics, etymology, and rhetoric. With its interdisciplinary implications, Moderating Masculinity should be of interest to students and scholars in gender studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, and French studies.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Reeser Todd W.
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Gennaio '06
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Masculinity History Masculinity in literature European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism
- Pagine: 283
- Peso gr: 520
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0807892874
- EAN-13: 9780807892879