From mother and daughter : poems, dialogues, and letters of les dames Des Roches / Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches ; edited and translated by Anne R. Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, approximately 1520-1587.

Contributor:

Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit, dame, 1542-1587.

Larsen, Anne R.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2006

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, approximately 1520-1587--Correspondence.

Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu.

Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit, dame, 1542-1587--Correspondence.

Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit.

French poetry--16th century.

French poetry.

Mothers and daughters--Correspondence.

Mothers and daughters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520-87) and Catherine (1542-87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother and Daughter are selections from their celebrated oeuvre, suffused with an engaging and enduring feminist consciousness. Madeleine and Catherine spent their entire lives in civil war-torn Poitiers, where a siege of the city, vandalism, and desecration of churches fueled their political and religious commentary. Members of an elite literary circle that would inspire salon culture during the next century, the Dames des Roches addressed the issues of the day, including the ravages of religious civil wars, the weak monarchy, education for women, marriage and the family, violence against women, and the status of women intellectuals. Through their collaborative engagement in shared public discourse, both mother and daughter were models of moral, political, and literary agency.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE OTHER VOICE EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

VOLUME EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS

I. SELECTED POEMS OF MADELEINE DES ROCHES FROM LES ŒUVRES(1579)

II. SELECTED POEMS OF CATHERINE DES ROCHES FROM LES ŒUVRES(1579)

III. SELECTED POEMS OF MADELEINE DES ROCHES AND CATHERINE DES ROCHES FROM LES SECONDES ŒUVRES(1583)

IV. THE DIALOGUES OF CATHERINE DES ROCHES FROM LES ŒUVRES(1579) AND LES SECONDES ŒUVRES (1583)

V. SELECTED LETTER OF MADELEINE DES ROCHES AND CATHREINE DES ROCHES FROM LES MISSIVES(1586)

NOTES

SERIES EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-37) and index.

ISBN:

9786611126032

9781281126030

1281126039

9780226723396

0226723399

OCLC:

476228449