Textual transvestism : (re)visions of Heloise (17th-18th-centuries) / Nancy M. Arenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arenberg, Nancy M., author.

Series:

Faux titre ; 398.

Faux Titre ; 398

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.

Abelard, Peter.

Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164--Influence--17th century.

Héloïse.

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Influence--17th century.

Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164--Influence--18th century.

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Influence--18th century.

Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Textual Transvestism analyzes the flourishing of imitative versions of Heloise’s and Abelard’s love correspondence in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Current theoretical approaches on epistolarity, narratology, cultural, feminist and gender studies have been used to focus on the various transformations (rewriting, adapting, veiling, fragmenting) of Heloise’s epistles, mainly in the hands of male writers. I employ close textual analysis to investigate how the multiple (re)visions of her epistolary discourse and persona over two hundred years might have been indicative of, and helped construct, ideological changes in expectations concerning the role of women. The scope of this study is relevant, but not limited, to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French Studies, especially since it explores contemporary cultural issues such as sexual discourse and gender construction throughout the nine chapters. In an age where women’s roles are shifting constantly, this project is especially germane because it traces historical roots of gender redefinition within French culture.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

INTRODUCTION: Writing Love: The Origins of the Letter Novel in France

Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum

The Genesis of the Love Letter

Grenaille’s Eloize as “La Magdalene Française”

Bussy Rabutin’s Letters

Fictional Transformation of the Lovers

Dom Gervaise’s Repentant Translation of Heloise and Abelard

The Hysterical and Pastoral Heloise

Julie or the Devout Heloise

Learned Heloise Regained

EPILOGUE: The Revival of Heloise in Popular Culture

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

94-012-1187-6

OCLC:

919516048

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211871 DOI