French romance of the later Middle Ages : gender, morality, and desire /

This study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 16 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. The text examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as maid...

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Main Author:	Brown-Grant, Rosalind
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the French.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism. Romances > History and criticism. Sex role in literature. Ethics in literature. Desire in literature. Littérature française > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique. Roman courtois > Histoire et critique. Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature. Morale dans la littérature. Désir dans la littérature. Social History. HISTORY. French. European. LITERARY CRITICISM. Desire in literature Ethics in literature French literature Romances Sex role in literature Bellettrie. Frans. Liefde. Seksuele aantrekking. To 1500 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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by Brown-Grant, Rosalind
Published 2008

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