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

Author/Creator:

Stanton, Domna C., author.

Publication:

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

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world
Women and gender in the early modern world

Format/Description:

Book
ix, 255 pages ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Women and literature -- France -- History -- 16th century.
French literature.
Women and literature.
France.

Form/Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1472442016 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472442024 (ebook)
9781472442031 (epub)

OCLC:

881720219

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