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Gender Rhetoric Fr Renaissnce Write: 63 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 63) - Softcover

Gray, Floyd

 
9780521024877: Gender Rhetoric Fr Renaissnce Write: 63 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 63)

Synopsis

This book examines the significance of rhetoric and print culture in French Renaissance writing about women.

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"...thought-provoking contribution to early modern French scholarship..." SubStance

Book Description

In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Gray offers new readings of a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical.

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