Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery

My parallel reading of two seventeenth-century romances by two women, one English, one French, aims to illumine the early modern mapping of womanhood from a female perspective. Part one examines the discourse of virtuous women in the patriarchal societies of Urania and Clélie. Adopting an approach b...

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Main Author: Genieys, Severine Nathalie
Published: University of Glasgow 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513001