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Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female intellectual became a figure of debate, France was also undergoing a shift away from the dominance of classical cultural models, the transition towards a standardized modern language, the development of a national literature and literary canon, and the emergence of the literary field. This book explores the intersection of these phenomena, analyzing how a range of women constructed the female intellectual through their recepti...
Beyond Greece and Rome
Classical reception in early modern Europe is often perceived in modern scholarship as being dominated by engagements with Greece and Rome. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by collectively arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe as part of a wider classical world.
Politics and Scepticism in La Mothe Le Vayer
The book aims at bringing a significant contribution to the study of a prestigious figure of the French 17th century who, thanks to his intellectual achievements, became involved with the leading politicians of the time, including Cardinal Richelieu and the future Louis XIV. Unlike the previous critical studies about La Mothe Le Vayer, the book does not study exclusively the works in which he seemed to undermine the political order, but also takes into account the series of educational treatises that he wrote for the prince between 1640-1658. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which involves philosophical and literary concepts, the book is likely to deal with a question that could not be more relevant nowadays: should an intellectual who perceives the failings of the political order withdraw into the solitude of his library or get involved in politics in order to try to improve it?
Amphion Orator
This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.
La langue à l'épreuve
Ce livre est une histoire de la poésie en France au XVIIe siècle vue à travers la question des rapports entretenus par les poètes avec la réforme malherbienne, généralement présentée comme uniformément répandue dans les pratiques d'écriture. Les contributions réunies montrent la complexité et la richesse de ces rapports, des divergences et des rapprochements inattendus entre poètes, la profondeur des réflexions menées par les auteurs et autrices, en fonction de leurs convictions philosophiques ou linguistiques, des influences qu'ils subissaient, des contextes politiques et idéologiques qui étaient les leurs. Trois grandes lignes se dégagent de l'ensemble des contributions : la prise en compte des écarts entre le purisme malherbien et la nécessité d'adapter son écriture aux codes d'une forme ou d'un genre ; le déploiement de discours sur l'autonomisation de la langue poétique ; des expérimentations linguistiques qui traduisent une résistance frontale à toute forme d'uniformisation poétique.
Ruling Women, Volume 2
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, a...
