The dynamics of gender in early modern France : women writ, women writing / Domna C. Stanton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanton, Domna C., author.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Gender identity in literature.

Women and literature--France--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

France.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Contents:

Recuperating women and the man behind the screen: (un)classical bodies in Les Caquets de l'Accouchée (1622)

The daughters' sacrifice and the paternal order in Racine's Iphigénie en aulide

The female mind reformed: pedagogical counter-discourses, radical and regressive, under Louis XIV

The heroine at war: self-divisions in La Guette's extraordinary memoirs

From the maternal metaphor to metonymy and history: seventeenth-century discourses of maternity and the passion of Mme de Sévigné

Overreading, without doubt: ambiguity and irony in La Princesse de Montpensier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472442017

1472442016

OCLC:

881720219