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| Introduction |
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| PART I: WOMEN IN HISTORY The Emergence of Feminist Consciousness |
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Women's Views on Marriage |
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Fire and Water: Marital Strategy and the "Femme de Bien" in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron |
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Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: Hortense Mancini's Memoires |
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PATRICIA FRANCIS CHOLAKIAN |
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The Teaching of the Fable: Mme de Charriere's Appropriation of "Le Chene et le roseau" in Lettres de Mistriss Henley |
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Charriere's Family Albums |
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43 | (14) |
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57 | (28) |
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The Body and Its Figures: Textual Strategies in the Writings of the Dames des Roches |
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57 | (12) |
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Marguerite de Navarre and Louise Labe, Two Perspectives on Liberty for Renaissance Women: Eros, Spiritual Love, Physical Love |
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69 | (16) |
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Women's Religious Choices |
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85 | (58) |
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The Absent Ellipsis: The Edition and Suppression of Marie Dentiere in the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Century |
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85 | (16) |
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Charlotte de Bourbon's Correspondence: Using Words to Implement Emancipation |
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101 | (16) |
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Mme du Noyer: Dissident Memorialist of the Huguenot Diaspora |
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117 | (10) |
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Mothering Mysticism: Mme Guyon and Her Public |
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127 | (16) |
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143 | (46) |
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Madame de Maintenon's Resigned Strategy |
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143 | (12) |
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A Courtly Salon on the Eve of the French Revolution: Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun-Salonniere |
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155 | (8) |
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Sexual/Textual Politics in the Enlightenment: Diderot and d'Epinay Respond to Thomas's Essay on Women |
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163 | (26) |
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| PART II: WOMEN AND LITERATURE Literary Emancipation |
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Helisenne de Crenne's Le Songe |
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189 | (18) |
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The Fury of the Pen: Crenne, the Bible, and Letter Writing |
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207 | (20) |
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Catherine des Roches, the Pastoral, and Salon Poetics |
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227 | (16) |
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Anne de Marquets's Smattering of Latin and Greek: Damning Faint Praise from Henri Estienne [1531-1598] and Leon Feugere [1810-1858] |
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243 | (10) |
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Staging Mystic Rapture: Strategies of Emancipation in Marguerite de Navarre's Comedie de Mont-de-Marsan [1548] |
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253 | (16) |
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Towards a Genealogy of Women's Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century France: The Eloquence of Ecstasy |
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269 | (12) |
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Matriarchal Desires and Labyrinths of the Marvelous: Fairy Tales by Old Regime Women |
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281 | (18) |
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Taking the Podium: Olympe de Gouges's Revolutionary Discourse |
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299 | (16) |
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Narrative and Rhetorical Innovation |
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315 | (100) |
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The Letter: Men's Genre/Women's Practice |
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315 | (20) |
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Letters to a Libertine: The Correspondence of Belle de Zuylen and Constant d'Hermenches |
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335 | (14) |
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The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois and the Birth of Women's Autobiography |
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349 | (14) |
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Mme Roland: History, Memoirs, and Autobiography |
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363 | (10) |
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The Authorial Mask as Metaliterary Device in Madame de Villedieu's Les Desordres de l'Amour |
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373 | (10) |
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Seizing the Pen: Narrative Power and Gender in Villedieu's Memoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere and Manley's Adventures of Rivella |
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383 | (14) |
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Memoirs, Publishing, Scandal: The Case of Mme D*** [D'Aulnoy] |
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397 | (18) |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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