Research Catalog

Title

Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Cottegnies, Line.
• Parageau, Sandrine.
• Thompson, John J., 1955-

Description

xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 42

Uniform Title

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 42.

Subjects

• Great Britain > History > 1485-
• Knowledge, Sociology of > History
• France > Intellectual life
• Women > France > Intellectual life
• Curiosity > Social aspects > England > History
• France > History > Bourbons, 1589-1789
• Women > England > Intellectual life
• Great Britain > Intellectual life
• Curiosity > Social aspects > France > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-7219

ISBN

• 9789004311831
• 9004311831

LCCN

2016000347

OCLC

934238936

Title

Women and curiosity in early modern England and France / edited by Line Cottegnies, Sandrine Parageau and John J. Thompson.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 42

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 42.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cottegnies, Line.

Parageau, Sandrine.

Thompson, John J., 1955-

Other Form:

Online version: Women and curiosity in early modern England and France. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004311848 (DLC) 2016009512

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7219