Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / / edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Cottegnies, Line.; Parageau, Sandrine.; Thompson, John J., 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 From Genesitic Curiosity to Dangerous Gynocracy in Sixteenth-Century England /; 2 Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women /; 3 This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida /; 4 ‘Too Curious a Secrecy’: Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania /; 5 Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader /; 6 On the Proper Use of Curiosity: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Célinte /; 7 Mermaids, Women and Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century England /; 8 The Interrogative Anne Conway: Curiosity in a Philosophical Context /; 9 Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women: The Views of the Cartesian Philosophers /; 10 Women’s Curiosity and Its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment /; 11 Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair: Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France /; 12 Virtuoso or Naturalist? Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland /; 13 Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders /; Index Nominum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900431184X
• ISSN: 1568-1181
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.

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. In the context of the early modern blooming “culture of curiosity”, women’s desire for knowledge made them both curious subjects and curious objects, a double relation to curiosity that is meticulously inquired into by the authors in this volume. The social, literary, theological and philosophical dimensions of women’s persistent association with curiosity offer a rich contribution to cultural history.