TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cottegnies,Line
AU  - Parageau,Sandrine
AU  - Thompson,John J.
TI  - Women and curiosity in early modern England and France
T2  - Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture,
SN  - 9789004311848
AV  - HQ1599.E5 
U1  - 305.4094209/031 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Women
KW  - England
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - France
KW  - Curiosity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1485-
KW  - Bourbons, 1589-1789
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004311848
ER  -