The cultivated woman
Subtitle: portraiture in seventeenth-century France
By: Elise Goodman
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Biblio 17 -- v. 176; Biblio 17 -- v. 176.
Publisher: Narr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783823363743
Subjects: French Portraits; Symbolism in art; Women intellectuals; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating cultivated women; title: Essaying education; title: Redressing the injustices: La querelle des femmes; title: Ruminating on the Ruelle: the précieuses, Bosse, and Molière; title: Making modern Minervas: Anne of Austria and Henriette d'Angleterre; title: Constructing the quintessential Minerva: Mademoiselle de Montpensier; title: Feminizing and transgressing: the court of Louis XIV, the Duchesse du Maine, and Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans; title: Writing, performing, and composing: cultivated women during the later reign of Louis XIV.