Against Marriage (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
115
Utgivningsdatum
2002-12-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
University of Chicago Press
Översättare
Joan DeJean
Originalspråk
French
Illustrationer
ports.
Dimensioner
224 x 171 x 15 mm
Vikt
313 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780226534909

Against Marriage

The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle

av Duchesse De Montpensier D'Orleans
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2002-12-01
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In 17th-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier - a first cousin of Louis XIV - was one of very few exceptions, thanks to the vast wealth she inherited from her mother, who died shortly after Montpensier was born. In the daring letters presented in this bilingual edition, Montpensier condemns the alliance system of marriage, proposing instead to found a republic that she would govern, "a corner of the world in which ...women are their own mistresses", and where marriage and even courtship would be outlawed. Her pastoral utopia would provide medical care and vocational training for the poor, and all the homes would have libraries and studies, so that each woman would have "a rooom of her own" in which to write books. Joan DeJean's lively introduction and accessible translation of Montpensier's letters - four previously unpublished - allow us unprecedented access to the courageous voice of this extraordinary woman.
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Famous during her lifetime, a leading figure in the insurrection known as the Fronde, and France's richest woman, La Grande Mademoiselle was also a writer of considerable ability; she brings to her memoirs the unique double perspective of a woman and an insider, and they provide a rare portrait of aristocratic life during the most tumultuous and dazzling decades of the century. --Benedetta Craveri "New York Review of Books" "This correspondence offers a unique entr[5]ee into mondain culture in the post-Fronde transition to Louis XIV's personal rule. Better, perhaps, than any other single document of the period, it engages modern readers in the femninist literature of mid-century and makes them take seriously a discourse on women, s choices and women's dreams that is too easily dismissed as pr[5]ecieuse posturing."--Carolyn Lougee Chappell "H-France Book Reviews" "Joan DeJean's introduction skillfully situates the texts within the struggles of Montpensier's own life without ever allowing the two to become confused or conflated." --Pollie Bromilow "Journal of European Studies"

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Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of a number of books, most recently Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle and The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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