Women and Querelles in Early Modern France, ed. by Helena Taylor and Kate E. Tunstall (Special Issue of Romanic Review, 112.3)
The Issue analyses women's involvements in various polemics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, challenging the misogynistic stereotype usually associated with the female quarreler.
Contents:
1. Introduction: “C’est une femme qui parle” Helena Taylor, University of Exeter; 2. Femmes, querelles galantes du xviie siècle et histoire littéraire, Myriam Dufour-Maître, Université de Rouen; 3. “Les hommes ont toute l’autorité”: Madeleine des Roches and the Querelle between Women and the Law, Emma Herdman, University of St Andrews; 4. Les Femmes dans la querelle de la moralité du théâtre: Le cas de Mademoiselle de Beaulieu, Clément Scotto di Clemente, Sorbonne Université; 5. Marie de Gournay’s “Advis à quelques gens d’Église” and the Early Modern Rigorist Debate, Derval Conroy, University College Dublin; 6. “Vivre avec les vivants”: Madame de Sablé, Conflict, and the Art of Ambiguity, Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University; 7. Antoinette Deshoulières’s Cat: Polemical Equivocation in Salon Verse, Helena Taylor, University of Exeter; 8. Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier dans la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, ou comment être soi et nièce, Lise Forment, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour; 9. This Quarrel Which is Not One. Women’s Interventions in an Eighteenth-Century French Quarrel about Boys’ Education, Gemma Tidman, St John’s College, University of Oxford; 10. A Woman’s Words—From Le Brun-Pindare to Citoyenne Pipelet and Constance, Princesse de Salm, Catriona Seth, All Souls College, University of Oxford; 11. Postface, Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
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