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A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing-Venice, London, Paris-1550-1700

July 1-28, 2001

 

Sun, July 1: Arrival; reception 5-6 PM, dinner together, 7 PM

Getting Acquainted; Logistics; Other Voice; SVHE; Bibliography

Mon, July 2: Personal Agendas; etc.

Session 1: Getting Acquainted

Session 2: Cont'd, Logistics

Session 3: Logistics

Unit 1 (July 3-10) Women Writers in Venice

Tu, July 3: Venice: The Setting

Session 1: The Myth of Venice

Edward Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, chap. 1, "The Myth of Venice" (9-67) (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, chap. 2, "Marvelous Venice: A Virgin City and Its Noble Body Politic" (72-114)

Session 2: The Political Scene

David Chambers and Brian Pullan, eds., Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, 39-102 (Reader)

Session 3: The Cultural Scene

Carlo Dionisotti, "La letteratura italiana nell'etá del Concilio di Trento," in his Geografica e storia della letteratura italiana, 227-54 (trans. for Reader by Anne Schutte)

Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620, chap. 1 (Reader)

Wed, July 4: 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 (Reader)

Stanley Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society, chaps. 1, 7-8 (27-52, 153-82)

Session 2: Venetian Popolane

Chambers and Pullan, 263-68 (Reader)

Dennis Romano, "Gender and the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice" (Reader)

Daniela Hacke, "'Non lo volevo per marito in modo alcuno': Forced Marriages, Generation Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680," (Reader)

Session 3: Discussion (no assigned reading)

Th, July 5: 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, chap. 3

Zarri, Gabriella, "The Third Status" (Reader)

Session 2: Venetian Courtesans

Margaret F. Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan, chap. 1 (11-57)

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: 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, July 6: Pastoral Drama; The Querelle des femmes

Session 1: Venetian Women's Writing (2): Pastoral Drama

Isabella Andreini, Mirtilla, trans. Julie Campbell (forthcoming) (Reader)

Maddalena Campiglia, Flori (Selections trans. for Reader by Virginia Cox)

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, ed. and trans. Anne Dunhill

Session 3: Discussion (no assigned reading)

Mon, July 9: 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, ed. and trans. Virginia Cox, 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

The Trial of Suor Mansueta (1574) (trans. for the Reader, Anne Schutte)

Excerpts from the trial of Veronica Franco (1579-80), from Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan, 197-203 (trans. for the Reader, Anne Schutte)

Tu, July 10: 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 (Reader)

Arcangela Tarabotti, On Paternal Tyranny, trans. Letizia Panizza (forthcoming) (Reader)

Sara Copio Sullam, Manifesto against the False Opinion Attributed to Her on the Immortality of the Soul (trans. for the Reader by Virginia Cox)

Session 3: Summing up (no assigned reading)

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Unit 2 (July 11-18) Women Writers in London

Wed, July 11: Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-73)

Isabella Whitney, "An order prescribed, by IS. W. to two of her yonger Sisters servinge in London," & "Her Will and Testament" (Reader)

Anon, "A Letter Sent by the Maydens of London," ed. R. J. Fehrenbach, 285-304 (Reader)

Ann Rosalind Jones, "Maidservants of London: Sisterhoods of Kinship and Labor," in Maids & Mistresses, Cousins & Queens, chap. 1 (Reader)

Testimony of Suzan More, Women's Worlds, 142-46

"News from the Tower-hill: Or, a gentle warning to Peg and Kate, to walke no more abroad so late," Pepys Ballads, vol. I, 266 (Reader)

"Advice to Young Gentlemen; or, An Answer to the Ladies of London," The Pepys Ballads, ed. W. G. Day, vol. IV, 365 (Reader)

"The Invincible Pride of Women: Or, The London Tradesman's Lamentation," Pepys Ballads, vol. IV, 153 (Reader)

Adam Fox, "Popular Verses and their Readership in the Early Seventeenth Century," The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, ed. Raven, Small and Tadmor, chap. 7 (125-37) (Reader)

Th, July 12: Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)

Aemilia Lanyer, The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Amy Erickson, Woman and Property in Early Modern England, Introduction & chap. 4 (3-20, 61-78) (Reader)

Margaret Sommerville, Sex and Subjection in Early Modern England, chap. 2 [to be read with Eve's Apology; Lanyer, 84-87] (Reader)

Ben Jonson, "Penshurst" (Reader)

Jonathan Goldberg, "Canonizing Aemilia Lanyer," Desiring Women Writing (Reader)

Fri, July 13: Anne Clifford (1590-1676)

Anne Clifford, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, ed. D.J.H. Clifford

Women's Worlds, 119-36 (wills)

Tim Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England, chaps. 2-3 (Reader)

Laura Gowing, "Language, Power, and the Law," in Feminism and Renaissance Studies, 428-49

Jacqueline Pearson, "Women reading, reading women," in Wilcox, ed., Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700, 80-99

Anne Laurence, Women in England 1500-1760, 165-71 (Reader)

Patricia Crawford, "Friendship and Love between Women in Early Modern England," in Venus and Mars, ed. Maddern and Lynch (Reader)

Harriette Andreadis, "The Erotics of Female Friendship," in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens, chap. 14 (Reader)

Letter from Constance Fowler to Katherine Thimelby, in Women's Worlds, 236-38

Mon, July 16: Elizabeth Cary (c. 1585-1639)

Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam

Margaret W. Ferguson, "Renaissance Concepts of the 'Woman Writer'," in Wilcox, ed., Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700, 143-68

Dympna Callaghan, "Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam," in Women, "Race" and Writing in the Early Modern Period (Reader)

Marie Rowlands, "Recusant Women 1500-1640," in Women in English Society 1500-1800, chap. 5 (Reader)

Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers, chap. 5 (on divorce)

Margaret Littleton's petition and Anne Younge's deposition, Women's Worlds, 172-74

Tu, July 17: Margaret Cavendish (1623-73)

Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

Frances Harris, "Living in the Neighborhood of Science: Mary Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish, and the Greshamites," in Women, Science and Medicine, 1500-1700, chap. 9 (Reader)

Sarah Hutton, "Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish and Seventeenth-Century Scientific Thought, in ibid, chap. 10 (Reader)

Wed, July 18: Aphra Behn (c. 1640-89)

Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister

Melinda Zook, "Contextualizing Aphra Behn," in Women Writers and the British Political Tradition (Reader)

Rachel Weil, Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England 1680-1714, chap. 1 (Reader)

Ellen Pollack, "Beyond Incest: Gender and the Politics of Transgression in Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister," in Rereading Aphra Behn, 151-86 (Reader)

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Unit 4 (July 19-26) Women Writers in Paris

Th, July 19: Background: Salons, the querelle des femmes, women's political activity

Marie de Gournay, "The Equality of Men & Women" (Reader)

François Poullain de la Barre, "The Equality of the Two Sexes" (Reader)

Ian Maclean, Woman Triumphant, chap. 2 (Reader)

Carolyn Lougee, Le Paradis des Femmes, 41-55, 113-70, 209-14 (Reader)

Erica Harth, "The Salon Woman goes Public...or Does She?" in Going Public, ed. E. C. Goldsmith and D. Goodman (Reader)

Joan DeJean, "The Salons and Preciosity," in A New History of French Literature (Reader)

Joan DeJean, Tender Geographies, 19-24, 36-42

Fri, July 20: Moving Toward the Modern Novel: Madeleine de Scudéry

Les Femmes illustres, "Sapho to Erinna" (Reader)

Artamène, ou Le Grand Cyrus, "The Story of Sapho" (Reader)

DeJean, Tender Geographies, 57-66

DeJean, Ancients Against Moderns, 78-88

Mon, July 23: The Modern Novel: Lafayette

Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (entire), plus the following articles in the Norton critical edition: 121-42, 159-64, 178-90, 240-68 (with regard to the latter, see expanded version in Tender Geographies, chap. 3)

DeJean, Tender Geographies, 43-50, 71-93

DeJean, Ancients Against Moderns, 57-66

Tu, July 24: Women and the Letter

Madame de Sévigné, Letters

Montpensier and Motteville, "Letters" (Reader)

Lougee, 70-78 (Reader)

Cholakian, Patricia, Women & the Politics of Self-Representation in 17th-Century France, 29-36 (Reader)

Wed, July 25: Backlash

Molière, Precious Damsels and The Learned Ladies (Reader)

Perrault, The Vindication of Wives (L'Apologie des femmes) (Reader)

Packet of Illustrations (Reader)

DeJean, Ancients against Moderns, 66-77

De Jean, Tender Geographies, 24-36, 67-70, 161-69 (for more info, see chap. 4, 127-58)

Th, July 26: The Future

Graffigny, Letters from a Peruvian Woman

Anne-Marie Thiesse and Hélène Mathieu, "The Decline of the Classical Age and the Birth of the Classics" (Reader)

DeJean, Tender Geographies, 182-99

A Summing Up

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Fri, July 27: Are these writers "Related"?

Session 1: Venice, Italian writers, and Others (English, French)

Session 2: London, English writers, & Others (Italian, French)

Session 3: Paris, French writers, & Others (Italian, English)

Materials to be Distributed to Each Participant

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Books: Primary Sources

Behn, Aphra, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister, ed. Janet Todd (London: Penguin Books, 1993)

Cary, Elizabeth, The Tragedy of Mariam, ed. Margaret Ferguson and Barry Weller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)

Castiglione, Baldassare, The Book of the Courtier (New York: Penguin Books, rev. ed., 1976)

Cavendish, Margaret, The Blazing World and Other Writings, ed. Kate Lilley (Penguin Classics, 1994)

Clifford, Lady Anne, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, ed. D.J.H. Clifford (Sutton, 1990)

Crawford, Patricia and Laura Gowing, eds., Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England (New York & London: Routledge, 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)

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 Graffigny, Françoise, Letters of a Peruvian Woman, trans. David Kornacker (New York: Modern Language Association, 1993)

de Lafayette, Marie Madeleine, The Princess of Clèves, ed. and rev. trans. Lohn D. Lyons (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994)

Lanyer, Aemilia, Salve deus rex judaeorum, ed. Susanne Woods (New York: Oxford UP, 1993)

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)

Molière, The Learned Ladies, trans. Richard Wilbur (New York: HarcourtBraceJovanovich, 1977)

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 (In Manuscript, Forthcoming: University of Chicago Press)

de Sévigné, Madame, Selected Letters (Penguin Classics, 1982)

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)

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Books: Secondary Sources

Chojnacki, Stanley, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)

DeJean, Joan, Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)

__________, 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)

Hutson, Lorna, ed., Feminism and Renaissance Studies (New York: Oxford UP, 2000)

Rosenthal, Margaret F., The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Sperling, Jutta Gisela, Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Chicago: Universitiy of Chicago Press, 2000)

Wilcox, Helen, ed., Women and Literature in Britain 1500-1700 (Cambridge UP, 1996)

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Articles: Photocopied Reader

1. Venice Unit

Campigli, Maddalena, Flori (selections trans. for the Reader, Virginia Cox)

Carpaccio, Vittore, "Two Venetian Ladies" (Museo Civico Correr) and "The Hunt in the Lagoon" (J. Paul Getty Museum): slides

Chambers, David and Brian Pullan, eds., Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 39-102, 243-54, 263-68

Dionisotti, Carlo, "La letteratura italiana nell'età del Concilio di Trento," in his Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana (Turin: Einaudi, 1967), 227-54 (trans. for the Reader, Anne Jacobson Schutte)

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

Hacke, Daniela, "'Non lo volevo per marito in modo alcuno': Forced Marriages, Generation Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680," in Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe, ed. Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, forthcoming 2001)

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

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

Zarri, Gabriella, "The Third Status," in Time, Space, and Women's Lives (see above under Hacke)

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2. London Unit

"Advice to Young Gentlemen; or, An Answer to the Ladies of London," The Pepys Ballads, ed. W.G. Day (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987), vol. IV, 365

Andreadis, Harriette, "The Erotics of Female Friendship in Early Modern England," Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens, ed. Susan Frye and Karen Robertson (New York: Oxford UP, 1999), 241-58

Callaghan, Dympna, "Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam," in Woman, "Race" and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker (New York & London: Routledge, 1995), 163-77

Crawford, Patricia, "Friendship and Love between Women in Early Modern England," in Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Philippa Maddern and Andrew Lynch (Perth, 1995), 47-61

Erickson, Amy, Women and Property in Early Modern England (New York and London: Routledge, 1993), Introduction and chap. 4, 3-20, 61-78

Fox, Adrian, "Popular Verses and their Readership in the Early Seventeenth Century," The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, ed. J. Raven, H. Small and N. Tadmor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 125-37

Goldberg, Jonathan, "Canonizing Aemilia Lanyer," in his Desiring Women Writing (Stanford, 1997), 16-41

Harris, Frances, "Living in the Neighborhood of Science: Mary Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish, and the Greshamites," in Women, Science and Medicine, 1500-1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society, ed. Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (London: Sutton Publishing Co., 1997), 198-217

Hutton, Sarah, "Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish and Seventeenth-Century Scientific Thought," in Women, Science and Medicine (q.v., Harris), 218-34

"The Invincible Pride of Women: Or, The London Tradesman's Lamentation," Pepys Ballads, vol. IV, 153

Jones, Ann Rosalind, "Maidservants of London: Sisterhoods of Kinship and Labor," in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens (q.v., Andreadis), 21-32

Jonson, Ben, "Penshurst"

Laurence, Anne, Women in England 1500-1760: A Social History (NewYork: St. Martin's Press, 1994), 165-71

"A Letter Sent by the Maydens of London," ed. R.J. Fehrenbach, in English Literary Renaissance 14/3 (1984): 285-304

"News from the Tower-hill: Or, a gentle warning to Peg and Kate, to walke no more abroad so late," Pepys Ballads, vol. I, 266

Rowlands, Marie, "Recusant Women 1500-1640," in Women in English Society 1500-1800, ed. Mary Prior (New York & London: Routledge, 1985), 149-80

Sommerville, Margaret, Sex and Subjection: Attitudes to Women in Early Modern Society New York & London: Arnold, 1995, chap. 2

Stretton, Tim, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), chaps. 2-3

Weil, Rachel, Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England 1680-1714 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), chap. 1 (22-49)

Whitney, Isabella, "An order prescribed, by IS. W. to two of her yonger Sisters servinge in London," & "Her Will and Testament" (both in A Sweet Nosegay, Brown Women Writers Project), 32-36, 47-57

Zook, Melinda, "Contextualizing Aphra Behn," in Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, ed. Hilda Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

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3. Paris Unit

Cholakian, Patricia F., Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France (University of Delaware Press, 2001), 29-36.

DeJean, Joan, "The Salons, 'Preciosity,' and the Sphere of Women's Influence," and "Classics in the Making," in A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier (Harvard UP, 1989), 297-303, 391-96

Gournay, Marie de, "The Equality of Men and Women"

Graphic Representations of Women

Harth, Erica, "The Salon Woman Goes Public...or Does She?" in Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France, ed. Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Dena Goodman (Cornell UP, 1995), 179-93

Lougee, Carolyn C., Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France (Princeton: UP, 1976), 42-55, 70-79, 86-170, 209-14

Maclean, Ian, Woman Triumphant: Feminism in French Literature, 1610-1652 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), chap. 2 (25-63)

Molière, The Precious Damsels, trans. Morris Bishop

Molière, The Learned Ladies, trans. Richard Wilbur

Montpensier and Motteville, "Letters"

Perrault, The Vindication of Wives (L'Apologie des femmes)

Poullain de la Barre, François, "The Equality of the Two Sexes," trans. Vivien Bosley

de Scudéry, Madeleine, Les Femmes illustres, "Sapho to Erinna," trans. Karen Newman

_____, Artamène ou Le Grand Cyrus, "The Story of Sapho," trans. Karen Newman

Thiesse, Anne-Marie and Hélène Mathieu, "The Decline of the Classical Age and the Birth of the Classics," in Displacements, ed. Joan DeJean and Nancy K. Miller (Johns Hopkins UP, 1991, 74-96.


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