Paris: Classiques Garnier, coll. Lire le XVIIe siècle 43, 2016. ISBN 978-2-406-05830-4.
Cet essai propose un panorama de l'histoire tragique du xviie siècle, au moment de son rayonnement. L'analyse met en évidence l'évolution des structures narratives et les traits d'une poétique de la crise où se joignent sentimentalisme et horreur. Une poétique, finalement, qui marque les débuts de notre modernité.
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Anna Maria Van Schurman, 'The Star of Utrecht': The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) – by Anne R. Larsen. Routledge, 2016.
Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. She was 'The Star of Utrecht','The Dutch Minerva','The Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex', 'the incomparable Virgin', and 'the oracle of Utrecht'. As the first woman ever to attend a university, she was also the first to advocate, boldly, that women should be admitted into universities. A brilliant linguist, she mastered some fifteen languages. She was the first Dutch woman to seek publication of her correspondence. Her letters in several languages Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French - to the intellectual men and women of her time reveal the breadth of her interests in theology, philosophy, medicine, literature, numismatics, painting, sculpture, embroidery, and instrumental music. This study addresses Van Schurman's transformative contribution to the seventeenth-century debate on women's education. It analyses, first, her educational philosophy; and, second, the transnational reception of her writings on women's education, particularly in France. Anne Larsen explores how, in advocating advanced learning for women, Van Schurman challenged the educational establishment of her day to allow women to study all the arts and the sciences. Her letters offer fascinating insights into the challenges that scholarly women faced in the early modern period when they sought to define themselves as intellectuals, writers, and thoughtful contributors to the social good.
Chapter Headings – Introduction: The Savante in Historical Context; 1. A Star is Born: The Education and Fame of a Savante; 2. The Savante, the Theologian, and the Philosopher; 3. Defending the Savante; 4. Translating the Savante; 5. Publishing the Savante; 6. Reception in France; 7. Reception in England; Epilogue; Appendix 1: Translated Latin Documents; Appendix 2: Eulogy of Anna Maria van Schurman by Isaac Bullart, 1682; Bibliography; Index. 343 pp.
Paris: Classiques Garnier, coll. Perspectives comparatistes, 2016. 617 p. 59€. ISBN 978-2-8124-4756-3.
Dans son épopée Roland furieux, Ludovico Ariosto met en valeur l'ambivalence de guerrières, Marphise et Bradamante, oscillant entre prouesse et défaite, féminité et virilité. Leur caractère multiforme favorise leur adaptation à d'autres genres littéraires, à part l'épopée, comme la tragédie ou le roman.
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Source: Dramatica
Oxford University Press, 2016. 224 p. $40. ISBN: 9780198754350. (New in paperback; hardback published in 2014.)
Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes.
Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV addresses this challenge by investigating status interaction - in dress as in address, in high ceremony and in everyday life - at one of its most important historical arenas: aristocratic society at the time of Louis XIV. By recovering actual practices on the ground based on a wide array of printed and manuscript sources, it transcends the simplistic view of a court revolving around the Sun King and reveals instead the multiple perspectives of contesting actors, stakes, and strategies. Demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the phenomenon, macro-political as well as micro-political, this study provides a novel framework for understanding early modern action and agency.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Marriage of 1679: High Ceremonies as Multifaceted Status Interactions
2. The affaire des sieges: The Anatomy of Ceremonial Crisis
3. The Battles of the Mantles: Ceremonial Gear and Status Conflict
4. To Wear or Not To Wear? Mantled Visits in the Early Eighteenth Century
5. The Duality of Service: Between Honour and Humiliation, between Primary and Secondary Functions
6. Epistolary Ceremonial: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction
Conclusion
Appendix I: The Royal House of Bourbon, 1643-1715
Appendix II: The Conde-Gourville Correspondence
Appendix III: Train-Length and Train-Bearing in Bourbon Funerary Services at Saint-Denis and at Notre Dame, 1643-1715
Appendix IV: A Schematised Hierarchy of Free-Address Forms
Bibliography
Index
Source: H-France
Paris: Classiques Garnier, coll. "Lire le XVIIe siècle", 2016. 498 p. 49€. ISBN 978-2-8124-5134-8.
Les licences des Contes relèvent moins d'une subversion que d'une dérogation consentie par les mondains qui les lisent. Cette poétique à la frontière du permis comme du défendu est le reflet d'un classicisme ironique envers ses propres codes et reposant sur la connivence avec le lecteur.
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