Engendering the Republic of Letters
Title | Engendering the Republic of Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Dalton |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2004-02-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0773571523 |
Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.
The Republic of Letters
Title | The Republic of Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. A. H. Nicholas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1834 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
The Republic of Letters
Title | The Republic of Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Paddy Maguire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Authors and publishers |
ISBN | 9780906890127 |
The Republic of Letters
Title | The Republic of Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Fumaroli |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2018-09-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300221606 |
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life--and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought-provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.
Everyday Revolutions
Title | Everyday Revolutions PDF eBook |
Author | Diane E. Boyd |
Publisher | Associated University Presse |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780874130072 |
Women's everyday choices can engender revolutionary acts. This collection gathers essays that build upon this premise and examines the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied not only the restrictions their own culture sought to enforce, but also the restrictions our historical and literary understandings have created.
Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France
Title | Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France PDF eBook |
Author | Mary McAlpin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317135903 |
In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls, supposedly brought on by their exposure to lascivious images, titillating novels, and lewd conversations, was the source of an increasing moral and physical degeneration. In how-to hygiene books intended for parents, the medical community declared that the only cure for this obviously involuntary departure from the "natural" path of sexual development was the increased surveillance of young girls. As these treatises by vitalist and vitalist-inspired physiologists became increasingly common in the 1760s, McAlpin shows, so, too, did the presence of young, vulnerable, and virginal heroines in the era's novels. Analyzing novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and Choderlos de Laclos, she offers physiologically based readings of many of the period's most famous heroines within the context of an eighteenth-century discourse on women and heterosexual desire that broke with earlier periods in recasting female and male desire as qualitatively distinct. Her study persuasively argues that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force-Freud's "dark continent"-has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.
The Contest for Knowledge
Title | The Contest for Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Gaetana Agnesi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226010562 |
At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female letterate proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. The Contest for Knowledge reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.