TY - BOOK ID - 17043457 TI - Gender, rhetoric, and print culture in French Renaissance writing PY - 2000 VL - 63 SN - 052177327X 0521024870 1107119804 0511010788 0511118473 0511151128 051131048X 0511485778 1280154705 0511049870 9780511010781 9780521773270 0511034628 9780511034626 9780511118470 9780511485770 9780511049873 9780511151125 PB - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - French literature KW - History and criticism KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Sex in literature. KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - French literature - 16th century - History and criticism KW - French literature - 17th century - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17043457 AB - In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical - Gray reveals the extent to which these marginalized texts reflect literary concerns rather than social reality. He then moves from a close analysis of the rhetorical factor in the Querelle des femmes to consider ways in which writing, as a textual phenomenon, inscribes its own, sometimes ambiguous, meaning. Gray offers richly detailed readings of writing by Rabelais, Jean Flore, Montaigne, Louise LabeĢ, Pernette du Guillet and Marie de Gournay among others, challenging the inherent anachronism of those forms of criticism that fail to take account of the rhetorical and cultural conditions of the period. ER -