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Author Dalton, Susan, 1968-

Title Engendering the republic of letters : reconnecting public and private spheres in eighteenth-century Europe / Susan Dalton
Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages)
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Elite Women in the Eighteenth Century -- "The Most Excellent Men of the Century": Julie de Lespinasse and Friendship in the Republic of Letters -- Marie-Jeanne Roland, Woman Patriot -- "Forging News According to Everyone's Divergent Passions": Giustina Renier Michiel in Venice -- Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini: Veronese Matriarch and Woman of Letters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject French letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Italian letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Upper class women -- France -- Correspondence
Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Correspondence
Upper class women -- France -- Intellectual life
Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Intellectual life
Upper class women -- Political activity -- France -- History -- 18th century
Upper class women -- Political activity -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 18th century
French letters.
Italian letters.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
Italian letters
French letters
Upper class women
Elite
Geistesleben
Frau
Ecrits de femmes -- Histoire et critique.
Lettres (Genre litteraire) francaises.
Lettres (Genre litteraire) italiennes.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- France -- Correspondance.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- Italie -- Venise -- Correspondance.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- France -- Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- Italie -- Venise -- Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- France -- Activite politique -- Histoire -- 18e siecle.
Femmes de la classe superieure -- Italie -- Venise -- Activite politique -- Histoire -- 18e siecle.
Brief -- Histoire et critique.
France
Italy -- Venice
Venedig
Frankreich
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773571525
0773571523