Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Scarci, Manuela, 1957-
2. Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
3. Creating Women (Conference) (2005 : Toronto, Ont.)
4. Creating Women : Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700 (Conference) (2005 : Toronto, Ont.)

Description

1. 205 pages; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Essays and Studies ; 31

Uniform title

1. Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 31.

Subject

1. 1450-1699
2. European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
3. European literature > History and criticism
4. Women and literature > Europe > History > 17th century
5. Women in literature
6. Femininity in literature
7. Gender identity in literature
8. Self in literature
9. Women > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History
3. History.

Contents

1. Introduction / Manuela Scarci -- Women and their fictions -- In Joan of Arc's shadow: The Maid of Orleans as identificatory model in some seventeenth-century Polemical texts / Jean-Philippe Beaulieu -- Women's voices in the works of Suzanne de Nervèze / Diane Desrosiers -- Speaking of women and giving voice to women: the example of Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry's Femmes illustres ou les harangues hèroïques / Renée-Claude Breitenstein -- Women and their writings -- Models for women in the letters of Huguenot noblewomen 1560-1620 / Jane Couchman -- Early modern Englishwomen's Miserere: ambitious and penitent expression / Patricia Demers -- Female impressions: some women writers in seventeenth-century English print / Anne Lake Prescott -- Women and their bodies -- Honour and shame: the construction of married women's bodies in fifteenth-century Spanish law / Dana Wessell Lightfoot -- From a manly knowledge to a man's helpmeet: changing conceptions of midwives' roles in seventeenth-century France / Bridgette Ann Sheridan -- The many faces of female discipline: gender control, subversion, and the nun-confessor relationship in golden age Barcelona / Cristian Berco -- Women and their agency -- The role of women in their kin's economic and political life: the Sienese case (end XIV- mid XV century) / Elena Brizio -- The role of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony in the planning of the royal palace of Caserta / Francesco Divenuto.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Essays stem from the conference Creating Women: Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700, held November 11-12, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain