Reading Olympe de Gouges

ISBN-13: 9781137346452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 116 str.

Carol L. Sherman

Opis

Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males.

Spis treści

1. Reception 2. The Drama of Rhetoric 3. The Rhetoric of Drama

O autorze

Carol L. Sherman is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.