Female exemplarity in Pierre Boaisuau and François de Belleforest's Histoires tragiques and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron

This PhD thesis uses close textual analysis to examine the presentation of examples to women in two French Renaissance short prose narrative collections. It explores and contrasts the way that moral and illustrative examples are presented by a male- and female-authored text. Extending earlier schola...

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Main Author: Bromilow, P. E.
Published: University of Cambridge 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596929

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