Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Contributors: Richard Hillman (Translator); Colette Quesnel (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780226305554
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; Sociology; European - French; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; 1565-1645; Early works to 1800; Gournay, Marie Le Jars de,; Translations into English; Women's rights
First sentence: Among that distinct, but often distinguished, minority who spoke with the "other voice" in early modern Europe-that is, in opposition to the dominant discourse of misogyny-one would be hard-pressed to identify another figure at once as versatile, as prolific, and as thoroughly committed to her particular sense of mission as Marie le Jars de Gournay, whose voice was insistently heard on the French literary scene over a period of roughly fifty years (from the early 1590s, to the early 1640s).