Women and curiosity in early modern England and France /
"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 c...
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| Published: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. |
| Series: | Intersections.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / |c edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson. |
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| 520 | 2 | |a "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"--Provided by publisher. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction / Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau -- From Genesitic Curiosity to Dangerous Gynocracy in Sixteenth-Century England / Yan Brailowsky -- Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women / Armel Dubois-Nayt -- This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge : Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida / Laura Levine -- "Too Curious a Secrecy" : Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Laetitia Coussement-Boillot -- Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader / Line Cottegnies -- On the Proper Use of Curiosity : Madeleine de Scudery's Celinte / Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand -- Mermaids, Women and Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century England / Susan Wiseman -- The Interrogative Anne Conway : Curiosity in a Philosophical Context / Sarah Hutton -- Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women : the Views of the Cartesian Philosophers / Marie-Frederique Pellegrin -- Women's Curiosity and its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment / Christophe Martin -- Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair : Few Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France / Adeline Gargam -- Virtuoso or Naturalist? : Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders / Neil Kenny -- Index Nominum. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Women |z France |x Intellectual life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Curiosity |x Social aspects |z England |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Curiosity |x Social aspects |z France |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Knowledge, Sociology of |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Intellectual life. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a France |x Intellectual life. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Cottegnies, Line. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Parageau, Sandrine. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Thompson, John J., |d 1955- | |
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