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Women writing antiquity : gender and learning in early modern France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Helena, 1985- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Academic
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Women intellectuals > France > History > 17th century.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Women and literature > France > History > 17th century.
French literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Intellectuelles > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature française > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Society & culture: general.
Society.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on the Text
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Authorship, Authority, and Agonism: Antiquity and Writing the Self
  • 3 The Paradoxes of Modesty: Historical Fiction and the Female Line
  • 4 'Classics' as Commodity: Antiquity and the Literary Market
  • 5 Salon Verse and the Philosopher-Poet
  • 6 Ancients and Moderns: Conteuses as Literary Critics
  • 7 The Career Classicist: Gender and Translation
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index