Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
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Contributions
- Richard Hillman (Translator) - Contributor
- Colette Quesnel (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2002-03-15 - University Of Chicago Press
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9646055M
- ISBN-139780226305554
- ISBN-100226305554
- OCLC Control Number48074374
- Library of Congress Control Number2001052272
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- Goodreads6019910
Classifications
- LCCPQ1799.G65 A238 2002
Description
(Annotation). During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. Two of these appear here in English for the first time-The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne and The Apology for the Woman Writing. One of the first modern psychological novels, the best-selling Promenade was also the first to explore female sexual feeling. With the autobiographical Apology, Gournay defended every aspect of her life, from her moral conduct to her household management. The book also includes Gournay's last revisions (1641) of her two best-known feminist treatises, The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Complaint. The editors provide a general overview of Gournay's career, as well as individual introductions and extensive annotations for each work.
First Sentence
Among that distinct, but often distinguished, minority who spoke with the "other voice" in early modern Europe-that is, in opposition to the dominant discourse of misogyny-one would be hard-pressed to identify another figure at once as versatile, as prolific, and as thoroughly committed to her particular sense of mission as Marie le Jars de Gournay, whose voice was insistently heard on the French literary scene over a period of roughly fifty years (from the early 1590s, to the early 1640s).
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