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This collection of essays focuses on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unlocking Epistemic Boundaries
Séverine Genieys-Kirk
Part 1. New Epistemologies
1. Female Epistemological Authority: Was Virginia Woolf Wrong, and What Else Might Have Happened to Judith Shakespeare?
Gina Luria Walker
2. The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy
Nancy Kendrick and Jessica Gordon-Roth
3. Remembering What We Have Tried to Forget: Writing the Lives, and Collecting the Works, of Early Modern Women Artists
Lara Perry
4. Controlling Powerful Women: The Emotional Historiography of Catherine de’ Medici
Susan Broomhall
Part 2. New Ventures
5. “Qualities Which Many Think Most Unlikely to Be Found in Women”: Genderfluid Textualities in Samuel Torshell’s
The Womans Glorie (1650)
Carme Font Paz
6. Madame du Châtelet and the Dangers of the Female Intellect
Sarah Hutton
7. “The Cause of Liberty Still Warms My Bosom”: Helen Maria Williams and the Political History of the French Revolution
Paula Yurss Lasanta
8. Women-Authored Collaboration at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Historiography and Gender Politics in Narratives by the Purbeck Sisters
María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia
9. Queen Isabella of Castile in Nineteenth-Century British and American Biographical Collections
Begoña Lasa-Álvarez
10. Flora MacDonald as “the Heroine of the ’45”: Representations of a Jacobite Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Biographies for Children
Anne Marie Hagen
11. Mary, Queen of Scots, in Juvenile Literature, 1987–2012
Armel Dubois-Nayt
12. Theater and Women in Power: The Ninon de Lenclos Phenomenon from Olympe de Gouges to Hippolyte Wouters
Séverine Genieys-Kirk
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Citoyenne Center Stage: The Creation of the Play
Olympe de Gouges porteuse d’espoir
Clarissa Palmer
Contributors
Index
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Séverine Genieys-Kirk is a lecturer of French and Francophone studies at the University of Edinburgh.
