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Rewriting the Renaissance : the discourses of sexual difference in early modern Europe / edited by Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women in culture and societyPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University Of Chicago Press, 1986.Description: xxxi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226243141
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Contents:
Part 1. The politics of patriatrchy : theory and practice Fatherly authority : the politics of Stuart family images /​ Jonathan Goldberg The absent mother in King Lear /​ Coppélia Kahn Prospero's wife /​ Stephen Orgel A midsummer night's dream and the shaping fantasies of Elizabethan culture : gender, power, form /​ Louis A. Montrose Puritanism and Maenadism in A mask /​ Richard Halpern Dalila's house : Samson agonistes and the sexual division of labor /​ John Guillory Patriarchal territiories : the body enclosed /​ Peter Stallybrass Part 2. The rhetorics of marginalization : consequences of patriarchy The other and the same : the image of the hermaphrodite in Rabelais /​ Carla Freccero Usurpation, seduction, and the problematics of the proper : a "deconstructive," "feminist" rereading of the seduction of Richard and Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III /​ Marguerite Waller The beauty of woman : problems in the rhetoric of Renaissance portraiture /​ Elizabeth Cropper Spinsters and seamstresses : women in cloth and clothing production /​ Merry E. Wiesner A woman's place was in the home : women's work in Renaissance Tuscany /​ Judith C. Brown Part 3. The works of women : some exceptions to the rule of patriarchy Catherine de' Medici as Artemisia : figuring the powerful widow /​ Sheila Ffoliott Feminism and the humanists : the case for Sir Thomas Elyot's Defense of good women /​ Constance Jordan Singing unsung heroines : androgynous discourse in Book 3 of The faerie queen /​ Lauren Silberman Stella's wit : Penelope Rich as reader of Sidney's sonnets /​ Clark Hulse Gender vs. sex difference in Louise Lab'̌s grammar of love /​ François Rigolot City women and their audiences : Louise Labé and Veronica Franko /​ Ann Rosalind Jones.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 393-412.

Part 1. The politics of patriatrchy : theory and practice Fatherly authority : the politics of Stuart family images /​ Jonathan Goldberg The absent mother in King Lear /​ Coppélia Kahn Prospero's wife /​ Stephen Orgel A midsummer night's dream and the shaping fantasies of Elizabethan culture : gender, power, form /​ Louis A. Montrose Puritanism and Maenadism in A mask /​ Richard Halpern Dalila's house : Samson agonistes and the sexual division of labor /​ John Guillory Patriarchal territiories : the body enclosed /​ Peter Stallybrass Part 2. The rhetorics of marginalization : consequences of patriarchy The other and the same : the image of the hermaphrodite in Rabelais /​ Carla Freccero Usurpation, seduction, and the problematics of the proper : a "deconstructive," "feminist" rereading of the seduction of Richard and Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III /​ Marguerite Waller The beauty of woman : problems in the rhetoric of Renaissance portraiture /​ Elizabeth Cropper Spinsters and seamstresses : women in cloth and clothing production /​ Merry E. Wiesner A woman's place was in the home : women's work in Renaissance Tuscany /​ Judith C. Brown Part 3. The works of women : some exceptions to the rule of patriarchy Catherine de' Medici as Artemisia : figuring the powerful widow /​ Sheila Ffoliott Feminism and the humanists : the case for Sir Thomas Elyot's Defense of good women /​ Constance Jordan Singing unsung heroines : androgynous discourse in Book 3 of The faerie queen /​ Lauren Silberman Stella's wit : Penelope Rich as reader of Sidney's sonnets /​ Clark Hulse Gender vs. sex difference in Louise Lab'̌s grammar of love /​ François Rigolot City women and their audiences : Louise Labé and Veronica Franko /​ Ann Rosalind Jones.

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