Contents
Introduction. Part I: Women Writ: 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.
Part II: Women Writing: The heroine at war: self-divisions in La Guette’s
‘extraordinary’ memoirs; From the maternal metaphor to metonymy
and history: 17th-century discourses of maternity and the passion
of Mme de Sévigné; Overreading, without doubt: ambiguity and irony
in La Princesse de Montpensier. Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
Includes 20 b&w illustrations
October 2014 266 pages
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