Domna C Stanton

The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France

Women Writ, Women Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary and cultural studies by incorporating dynamic, shifting notions of gender and engaging with contemporary critical theory in an effort to gauge the specifics of textual conformity and resistance to norms. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781472442017
• ISBN-10: 1472442016
• Artikelnr.: 44635845

Autorenporträt

Domna C. Stanton, Distinguished Professor of French at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is the author of books and essays on early-modern French studies, women's writing and feminist theory, and the practices of Human Rights. She is past President of the Modern Language Association, former editor of PMLA, and currently serves on a number of non-profit boards.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Women Writ
Chapter 1 Recuperating Women and the Man Behind the Screen: (Un)classical Bodies in Les caquets de l'accouchée (1622)?
Chapter 2 The Daughters' Sacrifice and the Paternal Order in Racine's Iphigénie en Aulide
Chapter 3 The Female Mind Reformed: Pedagogical Counter-Discourses, Radical and Regressive, Under Louis XIV
Part II Women Writing
Chapter 4 The Heroine at War: Self-Divisions in La Guette's "Extraordinary" Memoirs
Chapter 5 From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternity and the Passion of Mme de Sévigné
Chapter 6 Overreading, Without Doubt: Ambiguity and Irony in La Princesse de Montpensier
afterword Afterword