Women Moralists In Early Modern France
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Author : Julie Candler Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Women Moralists In Early Modern France written by Julie Candler Hayes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Julie Candler Hayes explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, a genre focusing on dispassionate observations on the human condition and traditionally viewed through its best-known male writers. This study, the first of its kind, includes both famous thinkers--such as Émilie Du Châtelet and Germaine de Staël--and nearly two dozen of their contemporaries. Hayes demonstrates how, through their critique of institutions and practices, their valorization of introspection and self-expression, and their engagement with philosophical issues, women moralists carved out an important space for the public exercise of their reason.
Women Moralists In Early Modern France
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Author : Julie Candler Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Women Moralists In Early Modern France written by Julie Candler Hayes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern women writers left their mark in multiple domains--novels, translations, letters, history, and science. Although recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies has enriched our understanding of these accomplishments, less attention has been paid to other forms of women's writing. Women Moralists in Early Modern France explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, the observation of human motives and behavior. This distinctively French genre draws on philosophical and literary traditions extending back to classical antiquity. Moralist short forms such as the maxim, dialogue, character portrait, and essay engage social and political questions, epistemology, moral psychology, and virtue ethics. Although moralist writing was closely associated with the salon culture in which women played a major role, women's contributions to the genre have received scant scholarly attention. Julie Candler Hayes examines major moralist writers such as Madeleine de Scud?ry, Anne-Th?r?se de Lambert, ?milie Du Ch?telet, and Germaine de Sta?l, as well as nearly two dozen of their contemporaries. Their reflections range from traditional topics such as the nature of the self, friendship, happiness, and old age, to issues that were very much part of their own lifeworld, such as the institution of marriage and women's nature and capabilities. Each chapter traces the evolution of women's moralist thought on a given topic from the late seventeenth century to the Enlightenment and the decades immediately following the French Revolution, a period of tremendous change in the horizon of possibilities for women as public figures and intellectuals. Hayes demonstrates how, through their critique of institutions and practices, their valorization of introspection and self-expression, and their engagement with philosophical issues, women moralists carved out an important space for the public exercise of their reason.
The Dynamics Of Gender In Early Modern France
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Author : Domna C. Stanton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
The Dynamics Of Gender In Early Modern France written by Domna C. Stanton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, Poulain de la Barre, in the first part; La Guette, La Fayette and Sévigné, in the second. These studies thus also take up different genres: satire, tragedy and treatise; memoir, novella and letter-writing. Since gender is a relational construct, each chapter considers as well specific textual and contextual representations of men. In every instance, Stanton looks for signs of conformity to-and deviations from-normative gender scripts. The Dynamics of Gender adds a new dimension to early modern French literary and cultural studies: it incorporates a dynamic (shifting) theory of gender, and it engages both contemporary critical theory and literary historical readings of primary texts and established concepts in the field. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as a practice. The Afterword examines some of the meanings of reading-as-a-feminist.
Menstruation And Procreation In Early Modern France
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Author : Cathy McClive
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Menstruation And Procreation In Early Modern France written by Cathy McClive and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Women Of Modern France
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Author : Hugo P. Thieme
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1907-01-01
Women Of Modern France written by Hugo P. Thieme and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Representing Judith In Early Modern French Literature
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Author : Kathleen M. Llewellyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Representing Judith In Early Modern French Literature written by Kathleen M. Llewellyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Bible categories.
Towards An Equality Of The Sexes In Early Modern France
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Author : Derval Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-01-09
Towards An Equality Of The Sexes In Early Modern France written by Derval Conroy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-09 with categories.
This interdisciplinary volume of eleven essays examines the idea and the reality of equality between the sexes in early modern France. It aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought.
Religion And Royal Justice In Early Modern France
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Author : Diane C. Margolf
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2003-12-25
Religion And Royal Justice In Early Modern France written by Diane C. Margolf and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-25 with History categories.
Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l’Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Huguenots and the Catholics. Using archival records of the court’s criminal cases, Margolf analyzes the connections to three major issues in early modern French and European history: religious conflict and coexistence, the growing claims of the French crown to define and maintain order, and competing concepts of community and identity in the French state and society. Based on previously unexplored archival materials, Margolf examines the court through a cultural lens and offers portraits of ordinary men and women who were litigants before the court, and the magistrates who heard their cases.
The Other Enlightenment
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Author : Carla Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
The Other Enlightenment written by Carla Hesse and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprecedented numbers and became active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates that gave birth to our understanding of the individual as a self-creating, self-determining agent. Carla Hesse tells this story, delivering a capacious history of how French women have used writing to create themselves as modern individuals. Beginning with the marketplace fishwives and salon hostesses whose eloquence shaped French culture low and high and leading us through the accomplishments of Simone de Beauvoir, Hesse shows what it meant to make an independent intellectual life as a woman in France. She offers exquisitely constructed portraits of the work and mental lives of many fascinating women--including both well-known novelists and now-obscure pamphleteers--who put pen to paper during and after the Revolution. We learn how they negotiated control over their work and authorial identity--whether choosing pseudonyms like Georges Sand or forsaking profits to sign their own names. We encounter the extraordinary Louise de Kéralio-Robert, a critically admired historian who re-created herself as a revolutionary novelist. We meet aristocratic women whose literary criticism subjected them to slander as well as writers whose rhetoric cost them not only reputation but marriage, citizenship, and even their heads. Crucially, their stories reveal how the unequal terms on which women entered the modern era shaped how they wrote and thought. Though women writers and thinkers championed the full range of political and social positions--from royalist to Jacobin, from ultraconservative to fully feminist--they shared common moral perspectives and representational strategies. Unlike the Enlightenment of their male peers, theirs was more skeptical than idealist, more situationalist than universalist. And this alternative project lies at the very heart of modern French letters.
Women In Renaissance And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Christine Meek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Women In Renaissance And Early Modern Europe written by Christine Meek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Renaissance categories.