Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9345574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne Legault (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315582108 |
| OpenAlex | W654851836 |
| Open Library | OL39534556M |
| ISBN | 9781315582108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France. The book consists of three parts: the first surveys the history of male thinkers' denial of female friendship, concluding with a synopsis of the cultural representations of female same-sex practices. The second analyzes female intimacy and homoerotism as imagined, appropriated and finally repudiated by Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral novel, L'Astrée, and Isaac de Benserade's seemingly lesbian-friendly comedy, Iphis et Iante. The third turns to unprecedented depictions of female intimate and homoerotic bonds in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Mathilde and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force's fairy tale Plus Belle que Fée. This study reveals a female literary genealogy of intimacies between women in seventeenth-century France, and adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare
Art · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Renaissance Literature and Culture · 1589-1789 · 17th century · bourbons · European · Femmes dans la littérature · France · french · French literature · French literature, history and criticism · Friendship in literature · History and criticism · Intimacy (Psychology) · Intimacy (Psychology) in literature · Intimité dans la littérature · Lesbians in literature · Literary Criticism · Littérature française · Women and literature · Women in literature
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |