Name: Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France:Strategies of Emancipation
ISBN: 9780203760833

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Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France

ABSTRACT

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.

part I|183 pages

Women in History

part |52 pages

Women’s Views on Marriage

chapter 1|11 pages

Fire and Water: Marital Strategy and the “Femme de Bien” in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron

chapter 2|14 pages

Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: Hortense Mancini’s Mémoires

chapter 3|11 pages

The Teaching of the Fable: Mme de Charrière’s Appropriation of “Le Chêne et le roseau” in Lettres de Mistriss Henley

chapter 4|12 pages

Charrière’s Family Albums

part |27 pages

The Female Body and Eros

chapter 5|12 pages

The Body and Its Figures: Textual Strategies in the Writings of the Dames des Roches

chapter 6|13 pages

Marguerite de Navarre and Louise Labé, Two Perspectives on Liberty for Renaissance Women: Eros, Spiritual Love, Physical Love

part |57 pages

Women’s Religious Choices

chapter 7|15 pages

The Absent Ellipsis: The Edition and Suppression of Marie Dentière in the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Century

chapter 8|15 pages

Charlotte de Bourbon’s Correspondence: Using Words to Implement Emancipation

chapter 9|10 pages

Mme du Noyer: Dissident Memorialist of the Huguenot Diaspora

chapter 10|13 pages

Mothering Mysticism: Mme Guyon and Her Public

part |43 pages

Education and Careers

chapter 11|12 pages

Madame de Maintenon’s Resigned Strategy

chapter 12|8 pages

A Courtly Salon on the Eve of the French Revolution: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun-Salonnière

chapter 13|21 pages

Sexual/Textual Politics in the Enlightenment: Diderot and d’Epinay Respond to Thomas’s Essay on Women

part II|230 pages

Women and Literature

part |126 pages

Tradition and Subversion

chapter 14|18 pages

Hélisenne de Crenne’s Le Songe

chapter 15|19 pages

The Fury of the Pen: Crenne, the Bible, and Letter Writing

chapter 16|15 pages

Catherine des Roches, the Pastoral, and Salon Poetics

chapter 17|10 pages

Anne de Marquets’s Smattering of Latin and Greek: Damning Faint Praise from Henri Estienne [1531-1598] and Léon Feugère [1810-1858]

chapter 18|16 pages

Staging Mystic Rapture: Strategies of Emancipation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Comédie de Mont-de-Marsan [1548]

chapter 19|12 pages

Towards a Genealogy of Women’s Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century France: The Eloquence of Ecstasy

chapter 20|17 pages

Matriarchal Desires and Labyrinths of the Marvelous: Fairy Tales by Old Regime Women

chapter 21|14 pages

Taking the Podium: Olympe de Gouges’s Revolutionary Discourse

part |102 pages

Narrative and Rhetorical Innovation

chapter 22|20 pages

The Letter: Men’s Genre/Women’s Practice

chapter 23|14 pages

Letters to a Libertine: The Correspondence of Belle de Zuylen and Constant d’Hermenches

chapter 24|14 pages

The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois and the Birth of Women’s Autobiography

chapter 25|10 pages

Mme Roland: History, Memoirs, and Autobiography

chapter 26|10 pages

The Authorial Mask as Metaliterary Device in Madame de Villedieu’s Les Désordres de l’Amour

chapter 27|13 pages

Seizing the Pen: Narrative Power and Gender in Villedieu’s Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière and Manley’s Adventures of Rivella 1

chapter 28|18 pages

Memoirs, Publishing, Scandal: The Case of Mme D*** [D’ Aulnoy] 1

Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France