Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance

Homosexuality, Gender, Culture

Gary Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26918-7 (ISBN)

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Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of classical sources, this book examines representations of homosexuality in sixteenth-century France. Analysing a wide range of texts and topics, it presents an assessment of queer theory that is grounded in historical examples, including French translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, the poetry of Ronsard, works in praise of and satirising Henri III and his mignons, Montaigne's Essais, BrantÃ´me's Dames galantes, the figures of the androgyne and the hermaphrodite, and religious discourses and practices of penance and confession. Close comparison with the ancient models on which they drew - the elegy and epic, the works of Plato, Ovid, Lucian, and others - reveals Renaissance writers redeploying an established set of cultural understandings and assumptions at once congruent and at odds with their own society's socio-sexual norms. Throughout this study, emphasis is placed on the coexistence of different models of homosexuality during the Renaissance - homosexual desire was simultaneously universal and individual, neither of these views excluding the other. Insisting equally on points of convergence and difference between Renaissance and modern understandings of homosexuality, this book works towards a historicisation of the concept of queerness.

Gary Ferguson is a Professor of French in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware, USA

Contents: Introduction: pre-modern (homo)sexuality: historical and theoretical issues; Homosexuality and gender: historical (trans)formations; Homosexuality, nature and taste; Queer (re)readings; Italian imports: tales of Sodom and other cities; Splitting hairs: (re)reading (with) Ronsard; Mourning/scorning the mignons: representations of heroism and favouritism at the court of Henri III; Montaigne's itchy ears: friendship, marriage, (homo)sexuality, and scepticism; Androgynes, hermaphrodites, and courtesans: women, queer nature and (queer?) pleasures; Towards modernity: on kissing, whipping, confession, and the closet - FranÃ§ois de Sales and Henri III; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-26918-2 / 1138269182
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26918-7 / 9781138269187
Zustand	Neuware