Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France

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.

About the author

Line Cottegnies, Ph.D. (1994), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, is Professor of English Renaissance Literature at that university. She has published widely on Caroline poetry, early-modern women authors and translation. She also has an interest in editing early modern texts.

Sandrine Parageau, Ph.D. (2008), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, is lecturer in English history at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She has published Les Ruses de l'ignorance (Paris: 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on women philosophers.

John J. Thompson, D.Phil (1983), Queen's University, Belfast, is Professor of English Textual Cultures in the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. He is author of two monographs and many essays on English lay reading experience, c. 1300-1600.

Contributors are Yan Brailowsky, Laetitia Coussement-Boillot, Armel Dubois-Nayt, Adeline Gargam, Sarah Hutton, Neil Kenny, Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, Laura Levine, Christophe Martin, Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, Beth Fowkes Tobin, and Susan Wiseman

Product details

• Authors: Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau, John Thompson
• Assisted by: Line Cottegnies (Editor), Sandrine Parageau (Editor), John J Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2016
• EAN: 9789004311831
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31183-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 552 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories