Queer (re)readings in the French Renaissance : homosexuality, gender, culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, Gary, 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Subjects:	French literature > 16th century > History and criticism. Homosexuality in literature.

Table of Contents:

Pre-modern (homo)sexuality : historical and theoretical issues
Homosexuality and gender : historical (trans)formations
Homosexuality, nature, and taste
Queer (re)readings
Italian imports : tales of Sodom and other cities
Splitting hairs : (re)reading (with) Ronsard
Mourning/scorning the Mignons : representations of heroism and favouritism at the court of Henri III
Montaigne's itchy ears : friendship, marriage, (homo)sexuality and scepticism
Androgynes, hermaphrodites, and courtesans : women, queer nature and (queer?) pleasures
Towards modernity : on kissing, whipping, confession, and the closet : François de Sales and Henri III.