ISBN:
9789004311848
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Women and curiosity in early modern England and France
DDC:
305.4094209/031
Keywords:
Women England
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Intellectual life
;
Women France
;
Intellectual life
;
Curiosity Social aspects
;
England
;
History
;
Curiosity Social aspects
;
France
;
History
;
Knowledge, Sociology of History
;
Great Britain Intellectual life
;
France Intellectual life
;
Great Britain History
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1485-
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France History
;
Bourbons, 1589-1789
;
Electronic books
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Great Britain ; Intellectual life
;
England
;
Frankreich
;
Frau
;
Bildung
;
Wissbegier
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Genesitic Curiosity to Dangerous Gynocracy in Sixteenth-Century England -- Chapter 2 Curious Men and Women in the Tudor Controversy about Women -- Chapter 3 This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male Curiosity in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- Chapter 4 'Too Curious a Secrecy': Curiosity in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Chapter 5 Margaret Cavendish or the Curious Reader -- Chapter 6 On the Proper Use of Curiosity: Madeleine de Scudéry's Celinte -- Chapter 7 Mermaids, Women and Curiosity in Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 8 The Interrogative Anne Conway: Curiosity in a Philosophical Context -- Chapter 9 Female Curiosity and Male Curiosity about Women: The Views of the Cartesian Philosophers -- Chapter 10 Women's Curiosity and Its Double at the Dawn of the Enlightenment -- Chapter 11 Between Scientific Investigation and Vanity Fair: Reflections on the Culture of Curiosity in Enlightenment France -- Chapter 12 Virtuoso or Naturalist? Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland -- Chapter 13 Curiosity, Women, and the Social Orders -- Index Nominum.
