Title Women telling nations / edited by Amelia Sanz, Francesca Scott, Suzan van Dijk

Published Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (462 pages) Series Women writers in history ; 1 Women writers in history ; 1. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I. WOMEN BELONGING TO NATIONS ; Medieval Women Networking before the Appearance of Nations; Latine loquor: Women Acquiring Auctoritas (Portugal 1500-1800); Beyond Political Boundaries: Religion as Nation in Early Modern Spain; Expatriates. Women's Communities, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe: English and Spanish Nuns in Flanders; Strange Language and Practices of Disorder: The Prophetic Crisis in France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685; PART II. WOMEN WRITING THE NATION Early Modern Women Intellectuals in 19th-Century Serbia: Milica Stojadinović, Draga Dejanović and Milica TomićThe Role of Božena Nĕmcová in the Construction of Czech and Slovak Cultural Identity; A Queen of Many Kingdoms: The Autobiography of Rayna Knyaginya; The Representations of Slavic Nations in the Writings of Josipina Turnograiska; Dora d'Istria and the Springtime of the Peoples in South-Eastern European Nations; The Vision of an Equal Nation: Russian-Finnish Author and Feminist Marie Linder (1840-1870); Selma Lagerlöf, Fredrika Bremer and Women as Nation Builders Decadent Women Telling Nations Differently: The Finnish Writer L. Onerva and Her Motherless Dilettante UpstartsPART III. WOMEN IN NETWORKS; The Community of Letters and the Nation State: Bio-Bibliographic Compilations as a Transnational Genre around 1700; Anthologies of Female Italian Authors and the Emergence of a National Identity in 19th Century Italy; Histories of Women, Histories of Nation: Biographical Writing as Women's Tradition in Finland, 1880-1920s; Early Women's Press (Three Female Magazines): A Challenge for the 19th Century East and Greece Connecting People, Inventing Communities in Faustina Sáez de Melgar's Magazine La Violeta (Madrid, 1862-1866)PART IV. WOMEN LOOKING ELSEWHERE; Overpassing State and Cultural Borders: A Polish Female Doctor in 18th-Century Constantinople; Between National Myth and Trans-national Ideal: The Representation of Nations in the French-Language Writings of Russian Women (1770-1819); Regina Maria Roche and Ireland: A Problematic Relationship; Amor Vincit (R)Om(A)Nia: Reshaping Identities in Romanian mid-19th-Century Culture Women's Nation from Ottoman to the New Republic in Fatma Aliye and Halide Edip Adıvar's Writing Notes on Contributors; Index Summary Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, we deal with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in fi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women authors -- Political activity BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Literature -- Women authors Frauenliteratur Skrivande -- läsning -- identitet -- Europa -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet. Nätverk -- relationer. Politisk verksamhet. Litteraturvetenskap -- författare. Writing -- reading -- identity -- Europe -- 16th century -- 17th century -- 18th century -- 19th century. Networks -- relations. Political activities. Literary studies -- authors. Kvinnliga författare -- historia. Kvinnor i politiken -- historia. Litteratur och politik -- historia. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Sanz Cabrerizo, Amelia Scott, Francesca Dijk, Suzanna van ISBN 9789401211123 9401211124 1322339430 9781322339436 9042038705 9789042038707

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