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Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and lack in order to exist, what Reeser terms "m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reeser, Todd W., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Lang. & Lit., ., 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bellettrie.
Mannelijkheid.
Masculinity.
Masculinity in literature.
European literature > Renaissance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Litterature europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Masculinite > Histoire.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Masculinity > History.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Constructing Moderate Masculinity in the Renaissance
  • 1. Aiming for the Mean: the Binary and the Ternary in Aristotle
  • 2. Engendering a Moderate Class in Renaissance Pedagogical Discourse
  • 3. (Im)Moderate Husband in Marriage Discourse and in Rabelais's Tiers Livre
  • 4. Linguistic Other: Masculinity and the Disruption of the Sign in Rabelais's Quart Livre
  • 5. 'Une Ardeur Immoderee': Homosexuality and Moderate Male Friendship in Montaigne's 'De l'Amitie'
  • 6. Aristotle in the New World: Genered Analogy in Renaissance Travel Narratives
  • 7. Ruling the Hermaphrodites: Masculinity, Sovereignty, and National Identity in Political Discourse
  • Conclusion: Moderate Masculinity after the Renaissance.

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