Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France
Helena Taylor
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2024
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9780191966743
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9780192870445
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Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France
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Focusing on the poetry of Antoinette Deshoulières, this chapter examines her classical intertext, namely her nonsense version of Lucretius, her Virgilian pastoral, and her reworkings of Anacreon, Horace, and Ovid, to analyse her philosophical scepticism. It explores the playful hermeneutics of her Lucretius version, as her irony and ‘burlesque’ style allow her to use this philosopher-poet to reflect on poetry’s capacity to make meaning, a point she also examines in relation to the quarrels surrounding the eclogue in the 1680s; and shows how this scepticism extends to her scrutiny of man’s reason in her pastoral verse. The chapter then demonstrates how Deshoulières uses ancient models to reflect on salon verse and the status of the (female) poet. Showing that she takes an elusive position in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, the chapter argues that she ‘thinks with’ a range of ancient texts to explore ‘authority’ as both authorial and epistemological.
Keywords: Antoinette Deshoulières, Lucretius, galimatias, Anacreon, Horace, scepticism, pastoral, Eclogues, Virgil, Fontenelle
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Literary Studies (Civil War and Restoration) Literary Studies (European)
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Women Writing Antiquity. Helena Taylor, Oxford University Press. © Helena Taylor (2024). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192870445.003.0005
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