Derval Conroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derval Conroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derval |
| FAMILY NAME | Conroy |
| SIGNATURE | CONROY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2907-8536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recovering Women’s Past
Illustrer le livre
Society and Sociability in Gabrielle Suchon
This article aims to examine the treatment of friendship in Gabrielle Suchon's Traité de la morale et la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire (1700). In the Traité, friendship is cast in political terms and is represented as the key foundational element of a healthy society. Specifically, a feminization of friendship and a politicization of sociability and conversation allow Suchon to carve out a space for women at the centre of a society f…
Introduction
This introduction aims to briefly outline some of the ways in which women have been historically excluded from the history of philosophy, and the ways in which recent developments are addressing that neglect and exclusion. It also outlines ways in which women were in fact included in the historiography of philosophy in the 17th century itself, the period in question
Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
Appropriations of a political machine
This article examines the published translations into Italian (1701) and Spanish (1702) of Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). Through an analysis of a number of peritexts, rather than the text itself, it aims to examine how Le Moyne's Gallerie , a volume fundamentally rooted in the political, ideological and aesthetic climate of 1647 France, was appropriated in other socio‐cultural and political climates. Freed from its original…
The Power and the Fury, or the Politics of Representation in Drama
I n a sketched typology of characters who appears in classical tragedy,” as he refers to it, Jacques Truchet identifies that of the “inflexible and cruel old queen,” to whom, he maintains, writers of tragedy were particularly attracted. 1 Leaving aside the problematic notion of character “type,” Truchet’s observation provides a fruitful point of access into the dramatic representation of the female sovereign of the period. Examination of a wide c…
Ruling Women
Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramat
Dramatizing the Female Prince
W hile representations of the warrior queen go a certain way towards challenging the construction of government and power as exclusively male prerogatives, the most radical challenge to that construction can be found in plays where the emphasis is on government as an androgynous moral and intellectual activity Between 1644 and 1689, seven plays dramatize the reality of a female capacity to rule with intelligence and patriotism: Racine’s Alexandre…
Ruling Women, Volume 2
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prin
Teaching the Early Modern Period
The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern
The original objective of this overview was rather simple. I would read a body of material devoted to teaching the early modern period, primarily as it pertained to English and French courses in higher education, with two aims in mind: firstly, to provide useful bibliographical information on the topic, and secondly, to present a synthesis of the key ideas in circulation concerning the perceived challenges involved in teaching the early modern pe…
Racine
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…
Appropriations of a political machine
This article examines the published translations into Italian (1701) and Spanish (1702) of Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). Through an analysis of a number of peritexts, rather than the text itself, it aims to examine how Le Moyne's Gallerie , a volume fundamentally rooted in the political, ideological and aesthetic climate of 1647 France, was appropriated in other socio‐cultural and political climates. Freed from its original…
Racine
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…
Teaching the Early Modern Period
The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern
The original objective of this overview was rather simple. I would read a body of material devoted to teaching the early modern period, primarily as it pertained to English and French courses in higher education, with two aims in mind: firstly, to provide useful bibliographical information on the topic, and secondly, to present a synthesis of the key ideas in circulation concerning the perceived challenges involved in teaching the early modern pe…
The Power and the Fury, or the Politics of Representation in Drama
I n a sketched typology of characters who appears in classical tragedy,” as he refers to it, Jacques Truchet identifies that of the “inflexible and cruel old queen,” to whom, he maintains, writers of tragedy were particularly attracted. 1 Leaving aside the problematic notion of character “type,” Truchet’s observation provides a fruitful point of access into the dramatic representation of the female sovereign of the period. Examination of a wide c…
Ruling Women
Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramat
Dramatizing the Female Prince
W hile representations of the warrior queen go a certain way towards challenging the construction of government and power as exclusively male prerogatives, the most radical challenge to that construction can be found in plays where the emphasis is on government as an androgynous moral and intellectual activity Between 1644 and 1689, seven plays dramatize the reality of a female capacity to rule with intelligence and patriotism: Racine’s Alexandre…
Ruling Women, Volume 2
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prin
Appropriations of a political machine
This article examines the published translations into Italian (1701) and Spanish (1702) of Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). Through an analysis of a number of peritexts, rather than the text itself, it aims to examine how Le Moyne's Gallerie , a volume fundamentally rooted in the political, ideological and aesthetic climate of 1647 France, was appropriated in other socio‐cultural and political climates. Freed from its original…
Society and Sociability in Gabrielle Suchon
This article aims to examine the treatment of friendship in Gabrielle Suchon's Traité de la morale et la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire (1700). In the Traité, friendship is cast in political terms and is represented as the key foundational element of a healthy society. Specifically, a feminization of friendship and a politicization of sociability and conversation allow Suchon to carve out a space for women at the centre of a society f…
Introduction
This introduction aims to briefly outline some of the ways in which women have been historically excluded from the history of philosophy, and the ways in which recent developments are addressing that neglect and exclusion. It also outlines ways in which women were in fact included in the historiography of philosophy in the 17th century itself, the period in question
Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
Illustrer le livre
Recovering Women’s Past
History (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)