Women Moralists in Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780197688601 / Twarda / 2024 / 304 str.

Emerita Professo Julie Candler (Emerita Professor of French

Recenzje

Hayes makes an important contribution to one of the great projects of contemporary scholarship: the expansion of the humanities canon to include the voices of hitherto neglected women authors. She provides a unitary interpretation of several early modern French women authors by showing their common roots in the moraliste genre of the period. By doing so, she reveals the philosophical significance of their work. Dealing more specifically with gender, Hayes demonstrates how these treat the issues of friendship, marriage, aging, and women's rational capabilities. Her careful analysis shows how a woman-authored set of texts, often dismissed as light literature, wrestles in depth with perennial philosophical issues.

O autorze

Julie Candler Hayes is Professor Emerita of French at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she served first as department chair and later as dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts from 2010 to 2020. Her research interests include early modern philosophy and literature, theories of language, literary theory, and translation studies. A Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2010, she is past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington Library, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.