Le Temps des "écriveuses": L'Oeuvre pionnière des épistolières au XVIIe siècle

[...]the play's evocation of paranoiac male control of a young woman-convent education, virtual house arrest, forced reading of moralistic texts designed to inculcate female subservience-exemplifies what Freidel says about young women's education and status in seventeenth-century France. [...

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Published inSeventeenth-century news Vol. 81; no. 3/4; pp. 80 - 83
Main Author Riggs, Larry W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published College Station Seventeenth-Century News 01.10.2023
Subjects
17th century
Authorship
Cultural capital
Culture
Education
Empowerment
Gender
Handwriting
Legitimacy
Letters
Misogyny
Women
Writers
Writing
France
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Summary:[...]the play's evocation of paranoiac male control of a young woman-convent education, virtual house arrest, forced reading of moralistic texts designed to inculcate female subservience-exemplifies what Freidel says about young women's education and status in seventeenth-century France. [...]Agnès, like the écriveuses studied in this book, expresses resistance to masculine control and begins to be a. femme habile, a subject, rather than an object, when she writes. [...]Moliere himself was engaged in the battles over authorship: his detractors, out of professional jealousy, or cultural conservatism, or with some other motive, praised his skill as a theatrical performer precisely in order to diminish him as a writer, or to deny that he was an author, at all.