Contentious readings: urban humanism and gender difference in 'La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582).': An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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From the supplier: The provincial and aristocratic salons that existed in France during the Renaissance era were venues for the creation, recitation and writing of prose and poetry by artists of both sexes. These places provided women the opportunity to display their intelligence, talent and wit that the universities and courts of laws denied them. The mother-and-daughter tandem of Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches published an anthology of works that recorded the output of one of those gatherings of artists in their salon. The theme, that of a flea in a woman's breast, was trivial but it produced a voluminous outpouring of poetry. An analysis of the anthology shows that the men, on one hand, and the two women, on the other, had distinctly different ideas about the subject.

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Title: Contentious readings: urban humanism and gender difference in 'La Puce de Madame Des-Roches (1582).'
Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publication:Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1995
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v48 Issue: n1 Page: p109(20)

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