The dynamics of gender in early modern France women writ, women writing /

Stanton, Domna C.

The dynamics of gender in early modern France women writ, women writing / [Texte imprimé] : Domna C. Stanton - Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate, cop. 2014 - 1 vol. (IX-255 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm - Women and gender in the early modern world . - Women and gender in the early modern world .

Bibliogr. p. [215]-244

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

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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

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