French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment
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French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Samia I. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-09-22
French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment written by Samia I. Spencer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-22 with History categories.
"The collection is more than the sum of its parts and it will be difficult even for men to look at the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution in quite the same way again." —London Review of Books " . . . a significant contribution to the general history of women. . . . an indispensable complement to our understanding of the eighteenth century." —Romance Quarterly
The Fiction Of Enlightenment
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Author : Heidi Bostic
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Fiction Of Enlightenment written by Heidi Bostic and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"This book argues that women authors of the French eighteenth century claimed reason and contributed to Enlightenment. It begins by framing the Enlightenment as fiction, in two senses: first, what passes under the name of Enlightenment in much current critical discourse is a fiction, or a caricatured construct; second, works of fiction can illuminate Enlightenment. The book offers fresh readings of texts by the three most prominent women among eighteenth-century writers in French: Francoise de Graffigny, Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, and Isabelle de Charriere, These authors challenged the widely held idea that women's reason was inferior to men's. Literary forms - novels, stories, plays, essays, and letters - allowed these authors to approach the question of reason in particularly nuanced ways. Faithful to the eighteenth century, this project is also relevant to the twenty-first." --Book Jacket.
Becoming A Woman In The Age Of Letters
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Author : Dena Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2009
Becoming A Woman In The Age Of Letters written by Dena Goodman and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with French letters categories.
In 18th century France, letter writing became extremely fashionable, particularly amongst women. In this work, Dena Goodman opens up the world of these women though the letters which they wrote. Concentrating on the letters of four women from different social backgrounds, she shows how they came to womanhood through their writing.
The Other Enlightenment
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Author : Carla Alison Hesse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Other Enlightenment written by Carla Alison Hesse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
""The Other Enlightenment" is a masterpiece of analytic clarity and historical acumen. Focusing on women's writing rather than on discourses about women, Carla Hesse shows that the French Revolution provided women with unprecedented access to print culture. Never again would the number of published women writers sink to pre-revolutionary levels. Anyone interested in women's access to bourgeois modernity will have to read this pathbreaking book."--Toril Moi, author of "What is a Woman?" "Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, "The Other Enlightenment" links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern."--Natalie Zemon Davis, author of "The Return of Martin Guerre" "Hesse takes the history of women and gender into exciting new territory. She gives women of the past a chance to talk back, to tell their stories, and to reveal how an alternative history can be discovered through their writings and even through the very act of writing. Hesse's groundbreaking evidence about women writers and their publications is bound to stimulate new work for years to come. Combining print history with literary and philosophical analysis, she argues a provocative and important thesis: that the growing market economy in print offered women new opportunities for self expression through fiction and for making public claims to moral autonomy. Women thus managed to define their own worlds, even as their public and private lives were legally subjugated to those of their fathers and husbands."--Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles "Hesse combines an insightful reading of key figures in the history of French women's letters with an astute understanding of the role of print culture in the making of modern society. She has produced a highly readable, extremely persuasive book. Against those who see the rise of modern society as erecting barriers to women's full equality and independence, Hesse finds cause for greater optimism."--Joan B. Landes, Pennsylvania State University "This book is a long-awaited tour-de-force by a major historian. It is sure to become an instant and enduring classic in French history and literary studies, a provocative and compelling argument to be reckoned with by anyone concerned about the possibilities for female subjectivity and women's full participation in modern Western culture and public life."--Margaret Waller, Pomona College
Minerva S French Sisters
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Author : Nina Rattner Gelbart
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Minerva S French Sisters written by Nina Rattner Gelbart and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Science categories.
A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history This book presents the stories of six intrepid Frenchwomen of science in the Enlightenment whose accomplishments—though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been generally omitted from subsequent studies of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist Jeanne Barret, garden botanist and illustrator Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, anatomist and inventor Marie-Marguerite Biheron, and chemist Geneviève d’Arconville. By adjusting our lens, we can find them. In a society where science was not yet an established profession for men, much less women, these six audacious and inspiring figures made their mark on their respective fields of science and on Enlightenment society, as they defied gender expectations and conventional norms. Their boldness and contributions to science were appreciated by such luminaries as Franklin, the philosophes, and many European monarchs. The book is written in an unorthodox style to match the women’s breaking of boundaries.
Women Gender And Enlightenment
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Author : B. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-05-27
Women Gender And Enlightenment written by B. Taylor and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-27 with Social Science categories.
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Women S Vices Public Benefits
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Author : Tjitske Akkerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Women S Vices Public Benefits written by Tjitske Akkerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Enlightenment categories.
The Search For Enlightenment
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Author : John Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1999
The Search For Enlightenment written by John Leigh and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In this fresh exploration of eighteenth-century French writing, John Leigh celebrates the ideas and hopes that animated its central figures and examines the extent to which authors--and their readers--shouldered heretofore-unknown responsibilities and confronted new doubts. The book identifies the key works of political protest, philosophical exploration, and religious enquiry, and at the same time encompasses such diverse forms as the novel, short story, poetry, and drama. Conveying a vivid sense of the energy and genius of the Enlightenment as embodied in its famous and controversial writers--Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, and Rousseau--the author also considers the achievements of influential but unsung authors such as Mabillon, Olympe de Gouges, Chénier, and de Sade.
The Enlightenment Of Age
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Author : Joan Hinde Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Enlightenment Of Age written by Joan Hinde Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Older women categories.
Female Sexuality And Cultural Degradation In Enlightenment France
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Author : Mary McAlpin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Female Sexuality And Cultural Degradation In Enlightenment France written by Mary McAlpin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls, supposedly brought on by their exposure to lascivious images, titillating novels, and lewd conversations, was the source of an increasing moral and physical degeneration. In how-to hygiene books intended for parents, the medical community declared that the only cure for this obviously involuntary departure from the "natural" path of sexual development was the increased surveillance of young girls. As these treatises by vitalist and vitalist-inspired physiologists became increasingly common in the 1760s, McAlpin shows, so, too, did the presence of young, vulnerable, and virginal heroines in the era's novels. Analyzing novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and Choderlos de Laclos, she offers physiologically based readings of many of the period's most famous heroines within the context of an eighteenth-century discourse on women and heterosexual desire that broke with earlier periods in recasting female and male desire as qualitatively distinct. Her study persuasively argues that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force-Freud's "dark continent"-has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.