The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing - Couverture rigide

Livre 15 sur 91: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Stanton, Domna C.

 
9781472442017: The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing
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ISBN 10 : 1472442016 ISBN 13 : 9781472442017
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, Poulain de la Barre, in the first part; La Guette, La Fayette and Sévigné, in the second. These studies thus also take up different genres: satire, tragedy and treatise; memoir, novella and letter-writing. Since gender is a relational construct, each chapter considers as well specific textual and contextual representations of men. In every instance, Stanton looks for signs of conformity to-and deviations from-normative gender scripts. The Dynamics of Gender adds a new dimension to early modern French literary and cultural studies: it incorporates a dynamic (shifting) theory of gender, and it engages both contemporary critical theory and literary historical readings of primary texts and established concepts in the field. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as a practice. The Afterword examines some of the meanings of reading-as-a-feminist.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472442016
ISBN 13 
9781472442017
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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