"Female "Complaintes

Laments of Venus, Queens, and City Women in Late Sixteenth-Century France

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10419783
AutoresKate Van Orden (University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas801-845
Fecha de publicación2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRenaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/1261925
PMID18975468
OpenAlexW2327888051
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas32

This essay studies a large repertory of French laments (complaintes,) written in the voices of women. As a feminine counterpart to masculine love lyric, the complainte arose from an alternative poetics, treating subjects excluded from fin amors, such as death, crime, and war. Essentially, lyric assigned erotic longing to men and mourning to women. The unusual subject matter accommodated by the complaintes, coupled with a set of material and musical forms locating them amid the cultures of cheap print, psalmody, and street song, ultimately embroiled them in the battles of the religious wars. Thus female voices came to trumpet confessional politics in songs that levied lyric, gender, and faith to serve in civil war

Art · Confessional · Faith · Literature · Musical · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Subject (documents · Theology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance Literature and Culture