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Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750)

Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750)

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1472484541
ISBN13: 9781472484543
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 16 2018
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Deliberating the Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women playwrights used their heroines as a vehicle through which to question traditional views on women. Author Theresa Kennedy argues that only the 'deliberative heroine, ' based on Enlightenment ideals-such as women's ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment-truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles.

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