Queer (Re)readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture

by Gary Ferguson (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $199.98

  Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of classical sources, this book examines representations of homosexuality in sixteenth-century France. Analysing a wide range of texts and topics, it presents an assessment of queer theory that is grounded in historical examples.