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Syllabus

July 6-August 2, 2003

  Sun, July 6:   Arrival; reception 5-6 PM, dinner together, 7 PM
Getting Acquainted; Logistics; Other Voice; SVHE; Bibliography
  Mon, July 7:   Personal Agendas, etc.
      Session 1: Getting Acquainted
      Session 2: Photos, UNC-1 Cards
      Session 3: Library Tour
Unit 1 (July 8-15)   Women Writers in Venice 
    Recommended reading prior to the institute:
      Patricia Fortini Brown, Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (entire)
  Tu, July 8:   Venice: The Setting
      Session 1:  The Myth of Venice
        Edward Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, ch. 1, "The Myth of Venice" (Reader)
        James S. Grubb, "When Myths Lose Power: Four Decades of Venetian Historiography" (Reader)
        Jutta Gisela Sperling, Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice, 72-114
      Session 2: The Political Scene
        David Chambers and Brian Pullan, eds., Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, 39-102
      Session 3: The Cultural Scene
        Published Writings by Italian Women, Reception, Cultural Attitudes (Reader)
        Carlo Dionisotti, "La letteratura italiana nell'etá del Concilio di Trento" (trans. for Reader by Anne Schutte)
        Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros, ch. 1 (Reader) 
   Wed, July 9:   Venetian Women: The Social Classes
      Session 1: Venetian Patrician Women
        Vittore Carpaccio, "Two Venetian Ladies" (Museo Civico Correr) and "The Hunt in the Lagoon" (J. Paul Getty Museum): slides
        Chambers and Pullan, 243-54
        Stanley Chojnacki, in Time, Space, and Women's Lives, 77-96
        Thomas Kuehn, in Time, Space and Women's Lives, 97-115
      Session 2: Venetian Popolane
         Chambers and Pullan, 263-68
        Dennis Romano, "Gender and the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice" (Reader)
        Daniela Hacke, in Schutte, Kuehn, and Menchi, eds., Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe, 203-21
      Session 3: Discussion (no assigned reading)
   Th, July 10:   Social Classes, cont'd; Women Writing: A Poetic Beginning
      Session 1: Venetian Nuns
        Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein (Selections)
        Sperling, Convents and the Body Politic, ch. 3 
        Zarri, Gabriella, in Time, Space, and Women's Lives, 181-201
      Session 2: Venetian Courtesans
        Margaret F. Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan, ch. 1 (Reader)
        Cathy Santore, "Julia Lombardo, 'Somtuosa Meretrize': A Portrait by Property" (Reader)
        Veronica Franco, Letter 22 in Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance, 175-79
      Session 3: Venetian Women's Writing (1): Secular Poetry
        Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: all selections from Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, Veronica Franco, and Isabella Andreini
        Petrarch's Lyric Poems, trans. Mark Musa:
poems 1, 61, 62, 90, 126, 132, 156, 157, 159 (Reader)
  Fri, July11:   Pastoral Drama; The Querelle des femmes
       Session 1: Venetian Women's Writing (2): Pastoral Drama
        Isabella Andreini, Mirtilla
        Maddalena Campiglia, Flori (Introduction, translation, and Italian text from ms in press, "The Other Voice") (Reader)
      Session 2: Venetian Women's Writing (3): The Debate on Women's Status
        Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, Book 3
        Lucrezia Marinella, The Nobility and Excellence of Women
      Session 3: Discussion (no assigned reading)
  Mon, July 14:   The Querelle des femmes, cont'd; Religious Writing
      Session 1: Venetian Women's Writing (4): The Debate on Women's Status (cont'd)
        Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women, Book 1
        Women Poets of the Italian Reanissance: Isabella Andreini, "Letter on the Birth of a Woman" (226-31)
      Session 2: Venetian Women's Writing (5): Religious Poetry
        Moderata Fonte, The Resurrection of Christ (selections, trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox)
        Lucrezia Marinella, Life of St. Catherine of Siena (selections, trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox)
      Session 3: Women Before the Inquisition
        Anne Schutte, in Time, Space and Women's Lives, 153-64
        The Trial of Suor Mansueta (1574) (trans. for the Reader, Anne Schutte)
        Excerpts from the trial of Veronica Franco (1579-80), (trans. for the Reader from Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan, 197-203, by Anne Schutte)
  Tu, July 15:   Oppositional Writing
      Session 1: Venetian Women's Writing (6): An Inquisitorial Autobiography
         Cecilia Ferrazzi, Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint, 3-74
      Session 2: Venetian Women's Writing (7): Seventeenth-Century Polemics
        Arcangela Tarabotti, Letters, trans. Meredith Ray and Lynn Westwater (from ms for "The Other Voice") (Reader)
        Arcangela Tarabotti, On Paternal Tyranny (ms in press, "The Other Voice," trans. Letizia Panizza) (Reader)
        Sara Copio Sullam, Manifesto against the False Opinion Attributed to Her on the Immortality of the Soul (trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox)
      Session 3: Summing up (no assigned reading)
Unit 2 (July 16-23)   Women Writers in London
  Wed, July 16:   Introduction
      Session 1: The Court and Country as Centers of Women's Literature and Structures of Patriarchy
        Alison Wall, Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640
        Barbara Harris, English Aristocratic Women, Introduction, chs. 1, 9
        Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth Widdowe" (Reader)
        Hilda Smith, "Humanist Education and the Renaissance Concept of Women," in Wilcox, ed., Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700, 9-29.
      Session 2: Aristocratic Women and Marriage
        Travitsky and Prescott, Female and Male Voices: Elizabeth, duchess of Norfolk (section 5), and Mary Tudor Brandon (section 16)
        Barbara Harris, "Marriage Sixteenth-Century Style: Elizabeth Stafford and the Third Duke of Norfolk" (1982); and "Power, Profit, and Passion: Mary Tudor, Charles Brandon, and the Arranged Marriage in Early Tudor England" (1989) (Reader)
         Wills of Sir Thomas Parr and Lady Mabel Parr (Reader)
        Mary Sidney Herbert in Renaissance Women Poets, 47-202
        Mary Astell, Reflections Upon Marriage (Reader)
        Helen Hackett, "Courtly Writing by Women," in Wilcox, ed., 169-89.
        Margaret Hannay, "Mary Sidney," in Hannay and Woods, eds., Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers, 135-44
        Anne Shaver, "Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 195-203
        Ros Ballaster, "The First Female Dramatists," in Wilcox, ed., 267-90
   Th, July 17:   Aristocratic Women, cont'd
      Session 1: Aristocratic Women
        Harris, English Aristocratic Women, chs. 3, 4, 7 (arrangement of marriage, wives, widows)
      Session 2: Cary, Cavendish, and Clifford
        Elizabeth Cary, Mariam (in Fitzmaurice anthology)
        Margaret Cavendish (Travitsky and Prescott, section 1)
        Anne Clifford (Reader)
        Barry Weller, "Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 164-73
  Fri, July 18:   Religion
      Session 1: Moderate and Radical Protestant Women
        Haigh, English Reformation, Part II, chs. 11, 14, 16
        Anne Askew, The Examinations
        John King, Frances Dolan and Elaine Hobby, Writing Religion," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 84-103
        Suzanne Trill, "Religion and the Construction of Femininity," in Wilcox, ed., 30-55
      Session 2: Continued
        Patrick Collinson, "The Role of Women in the English Reformation Illustrated by the Life and Friendships of Anne Locke" (Reader)
        Travitsky and Prescott: Moderate and Radical Protestant Women, sections 10-14
Mon, July 21: London and the Debate About Women
Session 1:
Gowing, Domestic Dangers (entire)
John Schofield, The Building of London, 131-76 (Reader)
Rachel Speght, The Polemics and Poems
Joseph Swetnam, The Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women (Reader)
        Barbara Lewalski, "Rachel Speght," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 174-84 
Session 2:
Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, in the Penguin Renaissance Women Poets
        Suzanne Woods, "Aemilia Lanyer," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 155-63
Tu, July 22: Gender, Sex, and Friendship
Session 1:
Barbara Harris, "Sisterhood, Friendship and the Power of English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550" (Reader)
Elizabeth I, speeches and a poem on "Monsieur" (Reader)
Travitsky and Prescott: section 30 on Carleton, Wythorne, and Spencer
Session 2:
Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Katherine Philips (Travitsky and Prescott, section 27; and in Fitzmaurice)
        Elizabeth Hageman, "Katherine Philips," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 185-94
        _____, "Women's Poetry in Early Modern Britain," in Wilcox, ed., 190-208
Wed, July 23: Race and the Other
Session 1: The Religious Other
Travitsky and Prescott, sections 13 and 15
Haigh, English Reformation, chs. 12, 13, 15, and Conclusion
Session 2: Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (Penguin edition)
Fitzmaurice, poems by Behn
        Germaine Greer, "Aphra Behn," in Hannay & Woods, eds., 204-13 
Unit 4 (July 24-31) Women Writers in Paris
Recommended reading prior to the institute:
Orest Ranum, Paris in the Age of Absolutism (Penn State University Press, rev. ed., 2002)
Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," in her Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 28-50 (also in our Reader)
Th, July 24: Background: Salons, the querelle des femmes
Wendy Gibson, Women in Seventeenth-Century France. New York: St. Martin's, 1989, Chapters 2, 4, 11, 12.
Ian Maclean, Woman Triumphant, ch. 2 (Reader).
Joan Kelly, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" (Reader)
Marie de Gournay, "The Equality of Men & Women," in Apology for Women Writing, 69-95.
François Poullain de la Barre, "The Equality of the Two Sexes," in Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises,
Elizabeth Goldsmith, Exclusive Conversations, ch. 1 (Reader)
Carolyn Lougee, Le Paradis des Femmes, introduction, ch. 1
(Reader).
Joan DeJean, Tender Geographies, ch. 1
Fri, July 25: Women Talking and Writing
Madeleine de Scudéry, Sapho
_____. Dialogues and Orations, ed. and trans. Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson (in press, Reader)
DeJean, Tender Geographies, ch. 2.
Goldsmith, Exclusive Conversations, ch. 2 (Reader)
Harth, Cartesian Women, ch. 1.
Carolyn Lougee, Le Paradis des Femmes, chs. 2-3, 8
(Reader).
Mon, July 28: The Modern Novel: Lafayette
Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves.
L. Gregorio, "The Gaze of History" (Reader)
Faith Beasley, Revising Memory, ch. 5 (Reader)
DeJean, Tender Geographies, ch. 3.
Beasley and Jensen, eds., Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's The Princess of Clèves.
Nancy K. Miller . "Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction" (Reader)
Tu, July 29: Women and Letters
Madame de Sévigné, Selected Letters (Penguin Classics).
Goldsmith, Exclusive Conversations, ch. 4 (Reader)
Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier, Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle
Isabelle de Charrière, Lettres de Mistriss Henley
Love Letters of a Nun to a French Officer (Lettres Portugaises) 1986, 2nd edition (Reader)
Marie Mancini, selected letters (Reader)
Goldsmith, Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, ch. 4.(Reader)
Wed, July 30: Letters and Memoirs
Marie Mancini, The Apology or, The Genuine Memoires of Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna, eldest Sister to the Duchess of Mazarin. London, J. Magnes and R. Bentley, 1679 (Reader)
Cholakian, Women and the Politics of Self-Representation, ch. 5. (Reader)
Madame de Villedieu, Memoirs of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière, ed. D. Kuizenga (Reader)
Wise, Margaret, "Villedieu's Transvestite Text: The Literary Economy of Gender and Genre in Les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière" (Reader)
Kuizinga, Donna, "The Play of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Play in the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière" (Reader)
Beasley. Revising Memory, ch. 1. (Reader)
Th, July 31: Enlightened Women?
Françoise de Graffigny, Letters from a Peruvian Woman. MLA
Nancy K. Miller."The Knot, the Letter, and the Book: Graffigny's Peruvian Letters" (Reader).
Julia V. Douthwaite. Exotic Women, ch. 2 (Reader).
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. "Women and the Enlightenment" (Reader).
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.
Harth, Cartesian Women, ch. 3.
A Summing Up
Fri, August 1: Exploring Questions
Session 1: How has your own perspective changed as a result of your exposure to these various traditions of writing? How might your teaching and scholarship be changed as a result?
Session 2: The larger question: Did women have a literature of their own? Is this a good question to ask?

Materials to be Distributed to Each Participant
Books: Primary Sources
Andreini, Isabella, Mirtilla, trans. Julie Campbell (MRTS, 2002)
Askew, Anne, The Examinations, ed. Elaine Beilin (New York: Oxford UP, 1996)
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works (Penguin Classics, 1992)
Castiglione, Baldassare, The Book of the Courtier (New York: Penguin Books, rev. ed., 1976)
de Charrière, Isabelle, Lettres de Mistriss Henley (New York: MLA, 1994)
Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing, ed. Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott (New York: Columbia UP, 2000)
Ferrazzi, Cecilia, Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint, ed. and trans. Anne Jacobson Schutte. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo), The Worth of Women, ed. and trans. Virginia Cox. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
de Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, trans. H. A. Hargreaves (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
Franco, Veronica, Poems and Selected Letters, ed. and trans. Ann Rosalind Jones and Margaret Rosenthal. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
de Gournay, Marie, Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, ed. and trans. Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
de Graffigny, Françoise, Letters from a Peruvian Woman, trans. David Kornacker (New York: MLA, 1993)
Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets, ed. Danielle Clark (Penguin Classics, 2000)
de Lafayette, Marie Madeleine, The Princess of Clèves, trans. Robin Buss (London: Penguin, 1992)
Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, ed. James Fitzmaurice (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, rev. ed. 1997)
Marinella, Lucrezia, The Merits of Women and the Defects of Men, ed. and trans. Anne Dunhill, introd. Letizia Panizza. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
de Montpensier, Duchesse (Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans), Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle, ed. and trans. Joan DeJean (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Poullain de la Barre, François, Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises, trans. Vivien Bosley, ed. and introd. Marcelle Maistre Welch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Riccoboni, Sister Bartolomea, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
de Scudéry, Madeleine, Sapho, ed. and trans. Karen Newman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
de Sévigné, Madame, Selected Letters, ed. Leonard Tancock (Penguin Classics, 1982)
Speght, Rachel, Polemics and Poems, ed. Barbara Lewalski. Women Writers in English 1350-1850 (New York: Oxford UP, 1996)
Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, ed. David Chambers and Brian Pullan, with Jennifer Fletcher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)
Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Courtly Ladies and Courtesans, ed. Laura Anna Stortoni, trans. eadem and Mary Prentice Lillie (New York: Italica Press, 1997)
Wroth, Mary, The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1983)
Books: Secondary Sources
Beasley, Faith and Katharine Jensen, eds., Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's The Princess of Clèves (New York: MLA, 1998)
De Jean, Joan, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (New York: Columbia UP, 1991)
Gowing, Laura, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words and Sex in Early Modern London (New York: Oxford UP, 1996)
Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society Under the Tudors (New York: Oxford UP, 1997)
Harris, Barbara, English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers (New York: Oxford UP, 2002)
Schutte, Anne Jacobson, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi, eds., Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2001)
Sperling, Jutta Gisela, Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Wall, Alison, Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640 (New York: Oxford UP, 2000)
Wilcox, Helen, Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700 (Cambridge UP, 1996)
Woods, Suzanne and Margaret Hannay, eds., Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (New York: MLA, 2000)

Articles: Photocopied Reader
 1. Venice Unit
   Campiglia, Maddalena, Flori (selections from ms in press, trans. Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson)
Carpaccio, Vittore, "Two Venetian Ladies" (Museo Civico Correr) and "The Hunt in the Lagoon" (J. Paul Getty Museum): slides
Fonte, Moderata, The Resurrection of Christ (selections, trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox
Franco, Veronica, excerpts from the trial of (1579-80), from Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan (q.v.), 197-203 (trans. for the Reader, Anne Jacobson Schutte)
Grubb, James S., "When Myths Lose Power: Four Decades of Venetian Historiography," Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 43-94
Jones, Ann Rosalind, The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990), chap. 1, "The Mirror, the Distaff, the Pen: The Ideological Climate of Women's Love Poetry" (11-31)
Mansueta, Suor, trial of (1574), from Gianna Paolin, Spazi del silenzio: Monacazioni forzate, clausura e proposte di vita religiosa femminile nell'età moderna (Pordenone: Biblioteca dell'Immagine, 1996), 169-83 (trans. for the Reader, Anne Jacobson Schutte)
Marinella, Lucrezia, The Life of St. Catherine of Siena (selections, trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox)
Muir, Edward, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), chap. 1, "The Myth of Venice" (9-67)
Petrarch's Lyric Poems, trans. Mark Musa (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1999), poems 1, 61, 62, 90, 126, 132, 156, 157, 159
Romano, Dennis, "Gender and the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice," Journal of Social History 23 (1989): 339-53
Rosenthal, Margaret, The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), ch. 1 (11-57)
Santore, Cathy, "Julia Lombardo, 'Somtuosa Meretrize': A Portrait by Property," Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988): 44-83
Sullam, Sara Copio, Manifesto Against the False Opinion Attributed to Her on the Immortality of the Soul (selections (trans. for the Reader, Laura Stortoni)
Tarabotti, Arcangela, Letters, trans. for the Reader, Meredith Ray and Lynn Westwater
______, On Paternal Tyranny, trans. Letizia Panizza (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), selections
2. London Unit
  Astell, Mary, Reflections upon Marriage (1706), in The First English Feminist, ed. Bridget Hill (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 67-132
  Clifford, Lady Anne, from Her Own Life, ed. Elspeth Graham, et al, 35-53
  Collinson, Patrick, "The Role of Women in the English Reformation Illustrated by the Life and Friendships of Anne Locke," in Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism (London, 1983), 273-87
  Elizabeth, Speeches and poem on "Monsieur"
  Harris, Barbara J., "Marriage Sixteenth-Century Style: Elizabeth Stafford and the Third Duke of Norfolk," Journal of Social History, 15 (1982): 371-82 (?)
  _____, "Power, Profit, and Passion: Mary Tudor, Charles Brandon, and the Arranged Marriage in Early Tudor England," Feminist Studies, 15 (1989): 59-88
  _____, "Sisterhood, Friendship, and the Power of English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550" in press
  Moulsworth, Martha, A poem on her life
  Parr, Sir Thomas and Lady Mabel (wills)
  Schofield, John, The Building of London, 131-76
  Swetnam, Joseph, Arraignment of Lewd, idle, forward, and inconstant women
3. Paris Unit
  Beasley, Faith, Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), chs. 1, 5.
  Cholakian, Patricia F., Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France (University of Delaware Press, 2001), ch. 5.
  Douthwaite, Julia V., Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Régime France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), ch. 2.
  Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, "Women and the Enlightenment," in Becoming Visible, ed. R. Bridenthal, C. Koonz, and S. Stuard (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd ed., 1987), 251-77.
  Gibson, Wendy, Women in Seventeenth-Century France (New York: St. Martin's, 1989), chs. 2, 4, 11, 12.
  Goldsmith, Elisabeth, "Exclusive Conversations": The Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), chs. 1, 2, 4.
  Gregorio, Laurence, "The Gaze of History," in John Lyons, ed., The Princess of Clèves (New York: Norton, 1994), 269-86.
  Kelly, Joan, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" from her Women, History, and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 19-50
  Kuizenga, Donna, "The Play of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Play in the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière," in Roxanne Lalande, ed., A Labor of Love (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2000), 147-61.
  The Portuguese Letters: Love Letters of a Nun to a French Officer, trans. Donald E. Ericson (Aventura: Bennett-Edwards, 2nd ed., 1986), 9-76
  Lougee, Carolyn C., Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France (Princeton: University Press, 1976), 42-55, 70-79, 86-170, 209-14
  Maclean, Ian, Woman Triumphant: Feminism in French Literature, 1610-1652 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), ch. 2.
  Mancini, Marie, Selected Letters
  _____, The Apology, or The Genuine Memoires of Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna, eldest Sister to the Duchess of Mazarin (London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, 1679).
  Miller, Nancy K., "Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction," PMLA 96: 1 (1981), 36-48.
  _____, "The Knot, the Letter, and the Book: Graffigny's Peruvian Letters," in her Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 137-57.
  Scott, Joan, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," in her Gender and the Politics of History (New York: Columbia UP, 1988), 28-50.
  de Scudéry, Madeleine, Selected Letters, Oration, and Rhetorical Dialogues, ed. and trans. Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson (The Other Voice Series, manuscript)
  de Villedieu, Madam, Memoirs of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière, trans. Donna Kuizenga (The Other Voice Series, in manuscript)
  Wise, Margaret P., "Gender and Genre in Les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière," in in Roxanne Lalande, ed., A Labor of Love, 131-46.

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