Manning the margins : masculinity and writing in seventeenth-century France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Seifert, Lewis Carl
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
Subjects:	French literature > 17th century > History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. Sex role in literature. Homosexuality in literature.

Table of Contents:

Civilizing the margins. The Chevalier de Méré's quest for honnête masculinity
Effeminacy and its meanings from court to salon
Vincent Voiture and the perils of galanterie
Madeleine de Scudéry's tender masculinity
Sexuality and the body at the margins. Writing sodomy: satire, secrets, and the "self"
Border crossings: for a transgendered Choisy.