Women Writing Antiquity - Gender and Learning in Early Modern France

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the production of knowledge.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Helena Taylor is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, where she previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. She is the author of The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture (OUP, 2017), and co-editor, with Fiona Cox, of Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present (OUP, 2023), and, with Kate Tunstall, of a special issue of Romanic Review entitled Women and Querelles in Early Modern France (2021).

Summary

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the production of knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Helena Taylor, Helena (Associate Professor of French and Taylor, Taylor Helena
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9780192870445
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287044-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Classical texts, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form