Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / / 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 contex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau
- 1 From Genesitic Curiosity to Dangerous Gynocracy in Sixteenth-Century England / Yan Brailowsky
- 2 Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women / Armel Dubois-Nayt
- 3 This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida / Laura Levine
- 4 ‘Too Curious a Secrecy’: Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania / Laetitia Coussement-Boillot
- 5 Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader / Line Cottegnies
- 6 On the Proper Use of Curiosity: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Célinte / Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand
- 7 Mermaids, Women and Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century England / Susan Wiseman
- 8 The Interrogative Anne Conway: Curiosity in a Philosophical Context / Sarah Hutton
- 9 Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women: The Views of the Cartesian Philosophers / Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin
- 10 Women’s Curiosity and Its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment / Christophe Martin
- 11 Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair: Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France / Adeline Gargam
- 12 Virtuoso or Naturalist? Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland / Beth Fowkes Tobin
- 13 Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders / Neil Kenny
- Index Nominum.