Women Writing Antiquity Gender and Learning in Early Modern France
Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were connected with the fashioning of literary identities and the production of knowledge.
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Women Writing Antiquity turns to the seventeenth century in France, a period of significant cultural change when the dominance of ancient Greek and Roman models was being contested, women were rising to cultural prominence, which provoked great debate over the figure of the female intellectual, and France was developing its own national literature, and, even, a standard version of its language. It argues that these phenomena are all connected and demonstrates this by looking at a series of women's representations and uses of Classical models, particularly as this relates to their representations of what constitutes an ideal woman intellectual.
