Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Bibliotheca Harleiana. A catalogue of the ... remains of the Harleian library ... collected ... by the ... lord high treasurer Harley. Which will be sold by auction, by mr. Robins, 12th Nov., 1816, and 4 following days
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdModernités hermaphrodites
Author: Magali Le MensPublisher:
ISBN: 9782866458928
Category : Intersexuality
Languages : fr
Pages : 900
Book Description
Description de l'Isle des Hermaphrodites - pour servir de supplement au Journal de Henry III
Author: Thomas Artus d' EmbryBirthing Bodies in Early Modern France
Author: Kirk D. ReadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317174070
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. In this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of birth in France. Although the rhetoric of birthing was widely used, strategies and negotiations depended upon sex and gender; this study considers the male, female, and hermaphroditic experience, offering both an analysis of women's experiences to be sure, but also opening onto the perspectives of non-female birthers and their place in the social and political climate of early modern France. The writers explored include Rabelais, Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches, Louise Boursier, Pierre de Ronsard, Pierre Boaistuau and Jacques Duval. Read also explores the implications of the metaphorical use of reproduction, such as the presentation of literary work as offspring and the poet/mentor relationship as that of a suckling child. Foregrounded in the study are the questions of what it means for women to embrace biological and literary reproduction and how male appropriation of the birthing body influences the mission of creating new literary traditions. Furthermore, by exploring the cases of indeterminate birthing entities and the social anxiety that informs them, Read complicates the binarisms at work in the vexed terrain of sexuality, sex, and gender in this period. Ultimately, Read considers how the narrative of birth produces historical conceptions of identity, authority, and gender.
Description de L'Isle Des Hermaphrodites, Nouvellement Decouverte
Author: Thomas ArtusPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104167028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
L'appel Du Monstrueux
Author: Mathieu BrunetPublisher: Peeters France
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"This volume examines the convoluted relationship between the science and literature of the 18th century with regard to monsters, and analyzes the dark side of Enlightenment poetics that deal with the appeal of the monstruous."--pub. desc.
Monograph of the Genus Digitaria
Author: Jan Theodoor HenrardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crabgrass
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715
Author: Allison StedmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611484367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the "long eighteenth century" by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo's evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and '90s, Allison Stedman unearths the seventeenth century rococo's counter-vision for the trajectory of the French monarchy and the dawn of the French Enlightenment. The first part of the study investigates the relationship between Montaigne's philosophy of literary production and those of early seventeenth-century "table-talk" novelists, libertine writers, and playwrights involved in the quarrel over Corneille's play Le Cid. She thus establishes the existence of a rococo philosophy of literary production whose goal was to innovate, to bring pleasure, and to create communities. The second part of the study explores the impact that the Duchess de Montpensier's literary portrait galleries, Jean Donneau de Vis 's periodical the Mercure Galant, and other forms of rococo literary production--by such authors as Charles Sorel, Alcide de Saint-Maurice, J.N. de Parvial and Jean de Pr chac--had in the creation of a textually mediated social sphere that served as the foundation of the publicly critical culture of the French Enlightenment. The study concludes with an investigation of the influx of salon sociability into the textually mediated social sphere during the 1690s. Stedman examines the role of interpolated literary fairy tales, proverb plays and other rococo publication strategies--in such late seventeenth-century women writers as d'Aulnoy, Lh ritier, Murat, and Durand--in transfiguring the salon from an exclusive social circle mediated by physical presence to an inclusive social diaspora mediated by texts. Rococo Fiction in France challenges established views of early modern French literary history and discusses a range of little known works in a generous and engaging manner.
Author: Rob Dückers