The Rhetoric of Concealment : Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature /

Demonstrating how struggles over gender and class were mediated through formal properties of writing, The Rhetoric of Concealment offers a new framework for the discussion of court literature and middle-class literature in the English Renaissance. Rosemary Kegl offers powerful new readings of works...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kegl, Rosemary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Gender Studies.
Literary Studies.
Medieval & Renaissance Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Accounting for Social Struggle
  • 1. "Those terrible approches": Sexuality, Social Mobility, and Resisting the Courtliness of Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie
  • 2. "Altogether like a falling steeple": The Politics of Sidney's Rebellions
  • 3. "The adoption of abominable terms": Middle Classes, Merry Wives, and the Insults That Shape Windsor
  • 4. "Euery Gentlemans companion": Middle-Class Hegemony, Marital Harmony, and the Making of Proverbs in Jack of Newbury
  • Afterword: Reading the Culture of Renaissance Criticism- History, Copia, and Commodification
  • Index

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