Women and curiosity in early modern England and France /
Women and curiosity in early modern England and France /
edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.
- 1 online resource.
- Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, v. 42 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections 42. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2016-II, ISBN: 9789004303881. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau -- Yan Brailowsky -- Armel Dubois-Nayt -- Laura Levine -- Laetitia Coussement-Boillot -- Line Cottegnies -- Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand -- Susan Wiseman -- Sarah Hutton -- Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin -- Christophe Martin -- Adeline Gargam -- Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Neil Kenny --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004311848
10.1163/9789004311848 DOI
2016009512
Women--Intellectual life.--England
Women--Intellectual life.--France
Curiosity--Social aspects--History.--England
Curiosity--Social aspects--History.--France
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
Great Britain--Intellectual life.
France--Intellectual life.
Great Britain--History--1485-
France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789.
HQ1599.E5
305.4094209/031
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau -- Yan Brailowsky -- Armel Dubois-Nayt -- Laura Levine -- Laetitia Coussement-Boillot -- Line Cottegnies -- Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand -- Susan Wiseman -- Sarah Hutton -- Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin -- Christophe Martin -- Adeline Gargam -- Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Neil Kenny --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004311848
10.1163/9789004311848 DOI
2016009512
Women--Intellectual life.--England
Women--Intellectual life.--France
Curiosity--Social aspects--History.--England
Curiosity--Social aspects--History.--France
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
Great Britain--Intellectual life.
France--Intellectual life.
Great Britain--History--1485-
France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789.
HQ1599.E5
305.4094209/031