| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Antigones Example -- 1. Christine de Pizans Political Thought and Civil War -- 2. Female Subjects as Counselors to Queens: Anne Dowriche, Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary -- 3. Politics, History, and the Fronde: Motteville, Montpensier, Longueville, Nemours -- 4. Margaret Cavendishs "French Connection" and Civil-War Political Writing -- 5. Post-Restoration Civil-War Writings: Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Jane Barker -- 6. Writing, Activism, and the French Revolution: Louise de Keralio, Stephanie de Genlis, Germaine de Stael -- Epilogue: Helen Maria Williams, Citizen of the World |
| Summary |
This book investigates early modern womens interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. Taking this transcultural and comparative perspective, and the period designation "early modern" expansively, Antigones Example identifies a canon of womens civil-war writings; it elucidates their historical specificity as well as the transhistorical context of civil war, a context which, it argues, enabled womens participation in political thought. Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities Emerita, at the University of Miami, USA |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 5, 2022) |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Women -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 16th century
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Women
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Women -- Political activity
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Women
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France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Women
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| Subject |
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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| ISBN |
9783030844554 |
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3030844552 |
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