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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.
- Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--France--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- French literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary and cultural studies by incorporating dynamic, shifting notions of gender and engaging with contemporary critical theory in an effort to gauge the specifics of textual conformity and resistance to norms. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as practice.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Women Writ; 1 Recuperating Women and the Man Behind the Screen: (Un)classical Bodies in Les caquets de l'accouchée (1622)?; 2 The Daughters' Sacrifice and the Paternal Order in Racine's Iphigénie en Aulide; 3 The Female Mind Reformed: Pedagogical Counter-Discourses, Radical and Regressive, Under Louis XIV; Part II Women Writing; 4 The Heroine at War: Self-Divisions in La Guette's "Extraordinary" Memoirs
- 5 From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternity and the Passion of Mme de Sévigné6 Overreading, Without Doubt: Ambiguity and Irony in La Princesse de Montpensier; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-61574-6
- 1-317-03511-9
- 1-317-03510-0
- 1-4724-4202-4
- 9781315615745
- OCLC:
- 889675846
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