Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
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Fairy Tale
fayette
Female Homoerotic
Female Homoeroticism
Female Intimacy
Female Literary Production
force
French Early Modern Literature
friendship
gender studies scholarship
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homoeroticism
homosociality
Il Ne
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Intimate Relationships
Isaac De Benserade
Je Ne
La Force
La Rochefoucauld
Le Prince De Beaumont
lesbian literary history
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Marie De Gournay
Marie Le Jars De Gournay
Marie Le Marcis
Marquise De Rambouillet
Perfect Friendship
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Women's Intimate Relationships
Women’s Intimate Relationships
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- ISBN 9781138262232
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Marianne Legault is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia. She teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature.
