Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France

These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of fri

List of contents

1: Introduction; 2: Was Montaigne a Good Friend?; 3: The Power to Correct; 4: Redressing Ficino, Redeeming Desire; 5: Translating Friendship in the Circle of Marguerite de Navarre; 6: From Reception to Assassination; 7: Friends of Friends; 8: Making Friends, Practicing Equality; 9: The Gendered Self and Friendship in Action among the Port-Royal Nuns; 10: The Marquise de Sablé and Her Friends; 11: From My Lips to Yours

About the author

Lewis C. Seifert is professor of French Studies at Brown University, USA. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias (1996) and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France (2009). Rebecca M. Wilkin is Associate Professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. She is author of Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France (2008). With Domna Stanton, she edited Gabrielle Suchon’s work (2010).

Summary

These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of fri

Product details

• Assisted by: Lewis C. Seifert (Editor), Seifert Lewis C. (Editor), Rebecca M. Wilkin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032922409
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92240-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism