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In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions.
In the context of the early modern blooming "culture of curiosity", women's desire for knowledge made them both curious subjects and curious objects, a double relation to curiosity that is meticulously inquired into by the authors in this volume. The social, literary, theological and philosophical dimensions of women's persistent association with curiosity offer a rich contribution to cultural history.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of illustrations and tables
Line Cottegnies and Sandrine Parageau, "Introduction"
1. Yan Brailowsky (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), "Curiosity and Gynocracy in the Sixteenth Century"
2. Armel Dubois-Nayt (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin), "Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women"
3. Laura Levine (Tisch School of The Arts, New York University), "This Is and Is Not Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida"
4. Laetitia Coussement-Boillot (Université Paris 7 Diderot), "'Too Curious a Secrecy': Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621)"
5. Line Cottegnies (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), "Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader"
6. Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand (Université de Caen Basse Normandie), "On the Proper Use of Curiosity: Madeleine de Scudéry's Célinte"
7. Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck College, University of London), "Curious tails: Mermaids under the Microscope"
8. Sarah Hutton (University of York), "The Interrogative Anne Conway: Curiosity in a Philosophical Context"
9. Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), "Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women: The Views of the Cartesian Philosophers"
10. Christophe Martin (Université Paris Sorbonne), "Women's Curiosity and its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment".
11. Adeline Gargam (Institut d'histoire de la pensée classique, Lyon), "Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair: A Few Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France"
12. Beth Fowkes Tobin (University of Georgia), "Virtuoso or Naturalist? Margaret, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785)"
13. Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford University), "Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders"
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