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Engendering the Republic of Letters

Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Susan Dalton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:3rd Feb '04

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Analyses the lives of four of the salon women in France and the Venetian republic in the late eighteenth-century - Julie de Lespinasse, Marie-Jeanne Roland, Giustina Renier Michiel, and Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini who all lived through the events that transformed Western culture, including the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.An examination of French and Venetian salon women's participation in political and intellectual life in the late eighteenth century.

"An evocative contribution to studies of the place of women in the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters." David Higgs, Department of History, University of Toronto "Dalton enters into a dialogue with contemporary critics on a number of subjects of current interest, calling into question several widely accepted notions. In highlighting the role of 'private' correspondence in the 'public' sphere, she demonstrates clearly the artificiality of the theoretical division between the public and private spheres, and offers new insights into the manner in which women's history can be studied and understood." Jo-Ann McEachern, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia

ISBN: 9780773526181

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

248 pages