Women Writers in Pre-revolutionary France: Strategies of EmancipationColette H. Winn, Donna Kuizenga Taylor & Francis, 1997 - 454 pages This extensive collection of English-language essays examines the many strategies of resistance to male domination that women in France from the 16th through the 18th centuries utilized in their lives and their writings. Themes treated include women's views on marriage, religion, education, careers, tradition, and narrative and rhetorical innovation. The 28 essays cover such well-known writers as Marguerite de Navarre and Madame de Charri re, as well as unjustly neglected figures from H lisenne de Crenne to Mme d'Aulnoy. Nearly all genres are discussed: novels, theater, short stories, poetry, textual commentary, letters, autobiography and memoirs. While most essays focus on one writer, some deal with such topics as the development of a women's rhetoric, the association of letter writing with women, or the fairy tale; and all of the studies are informed by the various currents of feminist criticism. |
Table des matières
Marital Strategy and the Femme de Bien in Marguerite | 5 |
Mme de Charrières Appropriation of Le | 31 |
Textual Strategies in the Writings of the Dames | 57 |
The Edition and Suppression of Marie Dentière | 85 |
Using Words to Implement | 101 |
Dissident Memorialist of the Huguenot Diaspora | 117 |
Madame de Maintenons Resigned Strategy MARCElle Maistre | 143 |
Elisabeth Vigée | 155 |
Towards a Genealogy of Womens Rhetoric in SeventeenthCentury | 269 |
Olympe de Gougess Revolutionary Discourse JANIE | 299 |
Mens GenreWomens Practice ROGER DUCHÊNE | 315 |
The Correspondence of Belle de Zuylen | 335 |
The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois and the Birth of Womens Autobiog | 349 |
History Memoirs and Autobiography BEATRICE DIDIER | 363 |
Narrative Power and Gender in Villedieus Mémoires de | 383 |
The Case of Mme D DAulnoy | 397 |
Hélisenne de Crennes Le Songe ROBERT D COTTRELL | 189 |
Crenne the Bible and Letter Writing JERRY C | 207 |
Catherine des Roches the Pastoral and Salon Poetics ANNE R LARSEN | 227 |
Damning Faint Praise | 243 |
Bibliography | 415 |
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