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Author Arenberg, Nancy M., author

Title Textual transvestism : (re)visions of Heloise (17th-18th-centuries) / Nancy M. Arenberg
Published Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (394 pages)
Series Faux Titre ; 398
Faux titre ; 398.
Contents Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: Writing Love: The Origins of the Letter Novel in France -- Abelard's Historia Calamitatum -- The Genesis of the Love Letter -- Grenaille's Eloize as "La Magdalene Française" -- Bussy Rabutin's Letters -- Fictional Transformation of the Lovers -- Dom Gervaise's Repentant Translation of Heloise and Abelard -- The Hysterical and Pastoral Heloise -- Julie or the Devout Heloise -- Learned Heloise Regained -- EPILOGUE: The Revival of Heloise in Popular Culture -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary "Textual Transvestism analyzes the flourishing of imitative versions of Heloise's and Abelard's love correspondence in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Current theoretical approaches on epistolarity, narratology, cultural, feminist and gender studies have been used to focus on the various transformations (rewriting, adapting, veiling, fragmenting) of Heloise's epistles, mainly in the hands of male writers. I employ close textual analysis to investigate how the multiple (re)visions of her epistolary discourse and persona over two hundred years might have been indicative of, and helped construct, ideological changes in expectations concerning the role of women. The scope of this study is relevant, but not limited, to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French Studies, especially since it explores contemporary cultural issues such as sexual discourse and gender construction throughout the nine chapters. In an age where women's roles are shifting constantly, this project is especially germane because it traces historical roots of gender redefinition within French culture."--Brill
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Influence -- 17th century
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 -- Influence -- 17th century
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Influence -- 18th century
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 -- Influence -- 18th century
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9401211876
9042039051
9789042039056
9789401211871