Veronique Desnain

Biographic Data

ID1101520
NAMEVeronique Desnain
GIVEN NAMESVeronique
FAMILY NAMEDesnain
SIGNATUREDESNAIN V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Introduction

    Open AccessVeronique Desnain, Emma Flynn et al.ARTICLENottingham French Studies2025

    Introduction to the Nottingham French Studies special issue Women and Activism in the Francophone World

  • The Paradoxes of Religion in Gabrielle Suchon

    Open AccessVeronique DesnainARTICLEEarly Modern French Studies2021

    Gabrielle Suchon’s reliance on religious texts and authorities to support and legitimise the arguments she makes in her two texts Traité de la morale et de la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire (1700) has sometimes been perceived as running contrary to its defence of female freedom. Suchon’s use of religious texts will be examined here as a corner stone of her attack on male hegemony and crucial to her argument, which rests in large part …

  • Gabrielle Suchon

    Veronique DesnainARTICLEForum for Modern Language Studies2012Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Gabrielle Suchon: Militant Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century France Get access Véronique Desnain Véronique Desnain Department of FrenchEdinburgh University59–60 George SquareEdinburgh EH8 9JUUnited Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2013, Pages 257–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs030 Published: …

  • The Origins of la vie neutre

    Veronique DesnainARTICLEFrench Studies2009References: 1

    This article examines the influence of Nicolas Caussin's writing on secular celibacy ( vie neutre ) — and especially of his Vie de Sainte Isabelle (1643) — on Gabrielle Suchon's Traité de la morale et de la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire, ou la vie sans engagement (1700). I argue that this overlooked source played a considerable part in shaping Suchon's theories regarding the subordination of women and the usefulness of a celibate lif…

  • Élise et la vraie vie?’ Reality and fiction in Brigitte Aubert's La Mort des neiges

    Veronique DesnainARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2004

    Because of its representation of marginal and often violent milieux, the status of noir fiction has long been that of an ‘inferior’, less ‘literary’ genre. It could be argued that its frequent references to popular culture, and especially television and film, explain its appeal to a wide audience, one that does not necessarily read other genres. The intrigue and setting of the noir novel enables it to be perceived primarily as a ludic activity wh…

  • Racine

    Veronique Desnain, Edric Caldicott et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review2003

    The Racinian hero and the classical theory of characterization, Georges Forestier Racine's use of maxims, Jean-Louis Backes women and power in Britannicus and Berenice: the battle of blood and tears, Christian Biet gender, power and authority in Alexandre le Grand and Athalie, Derval Conroy constructions of identity: mirrors of the Other in Racine's Jane Conroy Racine's Jacobite plays: the politics of the Bible, Edric Caldicott les freres ennemis…

  • La femelle de l'espèce

    Open AccessVeronique DesnainARTICLEFrench Cultural Studies2001Cited by: 2