Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France

Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France
ISBN-10
0801481651
ISBN-13
9780801481659
Series
Going Public
Category
History
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Authors
Dena Goodman, Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Description

Exploring the ways in which French women went public through publication, this book shows how they contributed to the formation of the public sphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Going Public also takes the critical literature on the woman writer to a new level by examining the implications of print publicity. The contributors investigate the intersection of gender and publicity in a wide range of printed texts, from memoirs and legal briefs to novels, poems, and fairy tales. In doing so they reveal much about why individual women drawn from the whole spectrum of society embraced the medium of print and about the impact this form of publicity had on their lives.

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