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Women and curiosity in early modern England and France
Title
Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.
ISBN
9789004311831 (
9004311831 (
9789004311848 (e-book)
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Physical Description
xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions. In the context of the early modern blooming 'culture of curiosity,' women's desire for knowledge made them both curious subjects and curious objects, a double relation to curiosity that is meticulously inquired into by the authors in this volume. The social, literary, theological and philosophical dimensions of women's persistent association with curiosity offer a rich contribution to cultural history"--Provided by publisher.
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Electronic version: Women and curiosity in early modern England and France. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 07, 2016
Series
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, volume 42
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau
From Genesitic Curiosity to Dangerous Gynocracy in Sixteenth-Century England / Yan Brailowsky
Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women / Armel Dubois-Nayt
This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge : Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida / Laura Levine
"Too Curious a Secrecy" : Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Laetitia Coussement-Boillot
Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader / Line Cottegnies
On the Proper Use of Curiosity : Madeleine de Scudery's Celinte / Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand
Mermaids, Women and Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century England / Susan Wiseman
The Interrogative Anne Conway : Curiosity in a Philosophical Context / Sarah Hutton
Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women : the Views of the Cartesian Philosophers / Marie-Frederique Pellegrin
Women's Curiosity and its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment / Christophe Martin
Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair : Few Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France / Adeline Gargam
Virtuoso or Naturalist? : Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland / Beth Fowkes Tobin
Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders / Neil Kenny
Index Nominum.
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