Cet ouvrage constitue le second volet de la série Images de Port-Royal. Ces études ne sont pas simplement juxtaposées: se complétant l'une l'autre, elles forment un tout et visent à rendre compte de l'infinie complexité de la réalité de Port-Royal.
Table des matières: http://www.classiques-garnier.com/editions-tabmats/JlnMS02_tabmat.pdf
Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 543 p. 48€. ISBN 978-2-8124-4808-9
Démocrite, Le Retour imprévu, Les Folies amoureuses suivies du Mariage de la Folie, Les Ménechmes.
Editions de Sabine Chaouche, Noémie Courtès et Joseph Harris.
Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. "Bibliothèque du théâtre français", novembre 2015, 557 p., 45€. ISBN 978-2-8124-3306-1
Source: Dramatica (Sandrine Blondet)
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Hardback, ISBN 9781137568427.
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy's work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.
CONTENTS
1. The Power and the Fury, or the Politics of Representation in Drama
2. The Drama of Gender Struggle: Androgyny and Female Government
3. Dramatizing the Female Prince: Virtue, Statecraft and Virginal Wives
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Hardback, ISBN 9781137567970.
Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynæcocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable and engaging, Conroy's work will appeal to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism, in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas.
CONTENTS
1. The Dynamics of Exclusion: 'Salic Law' and Constructions of Masculine Monarchy
2. Government by Women in Early Modern 'Galleries' of Women
3. Engendering Equality: Gynæcocracy in Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, and Suchon
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