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1 online resource (283 pages). |
| Series |
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 283 |
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North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 283.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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, LÄry, 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. |
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Introduction: Constructing Moderate Masculinity in the Renaissance -- 1. Aiming for the Mean: the Binary and the Ternary in Aristotle -- 2. Engendering a Moderate Class in Renaissance Pedagogical Discourse -- 3. (Im)Moderate Husband in Marriage Discourse and in Rabelais's Tiers Livre -- 4. Linguistic Other: Masculinity and the Disruption of the Sign in Rabelais's Quart Livre -- 5. 'Une Ardeur Immodérée': Homosexuality and Moderate Male Friendship in Montaigne's 'De l'Amitié' -- 6. Aristotle in the New World: Genered Analogy in Renaissance Travel Narratives -- 7. Ruling the Hermaphrodites: Masculinity, Sovereignty, and National Identity in Political Discourse -- Conclusion: Moderate Masculinity after the Renaissance. |
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Print version record. |
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| Subject |
Masculinity -- History.
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Masculinity in literature.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01710967
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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Masculinity. (OCoLC)fst01011027
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Mannelijkheid.
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Bellettrie.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reeser, Todd W., 1967- Moderating masculinity in early modern culture. Chapel Hill, NC : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Lang. & Lit., ., 2006 0807892874 (DLC) 2006040063 (OCoLC)64230372 |
| ISBN |
9781469645681 (electronic bk.) |
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1469645688 (electronic bk.) |
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