Ruling Women: Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-century French Drama - Couverture rigide

Conroy, Derval

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137568429 ISBN 13 : 9781137568427

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

"This book, the first of two volumes, is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political and feminist texts, it sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynaecocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. The study draws on the existing work concerning queenship but innovates in its focus on the literary, feminist, and philosophical representations of female governance in France"--

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Derval Conroy is Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137568429
• ISBN 13: 9781137568427
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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