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Author:

Stanton, Domna C., author.

Title:

The dynamics of gender in early modern France : women writ, women writing / Domna C. Stanton.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 255 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.
French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Women and literature--France--History--16th century.
French literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Women and literature.
France.
1500 - 1699
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Recuperating women and the man behind the screen: (un)classical bodies in Les Caquets de l'Accouchée (1622) -- The daughters' sacrifice and the paternal order in Racine's Iphigénie en aulide -- The female mind reformed: pedagogical counter-discourses, radical and regressive, under Louis XIV -- The heroine at war: self-divisions in La Guette's extraordinary memoirs -- From the maternal metaphor to metonymy and history: seventeenth-century discourses of maternity and the passion of Mme de Sévigné -- Overreading, without doubt: ambiguity and irony in La Princesse de Montpensier.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

ISBN:

1472442016
9781472442017

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881720219

LCCN:

2014012049

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)