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by Maria Teres Prendergast


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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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  • Title Renaissance Fantasies: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
  • Author Maria Teres Prendergast
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Kent State University Press, Kent, OH
  • Date January 2000
  • ISBN 9780873386449 / 0873386442
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.3 x 0.77 in (23.77 x 16.00 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Gender identity in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99021763
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.393

About the author

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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