| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 42 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.)
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Women -- England -- Intellectual life
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Women -- France -- Intellectual life
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Curiosity -- Social aspects -- England -- History
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Curiosity -- Social aspects -- France -- History
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Knowledge, Sociology of -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Intellectual life
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Women -- Intellectual life
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
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France -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051436
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Great Britain -- History -- 1485- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056778
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France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301
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| Subject |
England
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France
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cottegnies, Line.
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Parageau, Sandrine.
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Thompson, John J., 1955-
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| LC no. |
2016009512 |
| ISBN |
9789004311848 |
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900431184X |
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