All the Abbé's Women: Power and Misogyny in Seventeenth-Century France, through the Writings of Abbé d'Aubignac

Title
All the Abbé's Women: Power and Misogyny in Seventeenth-Century France, through the Writings of Abbé d'Aubignac
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Bourque, Bernard
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Gunter Narr Verlag
Place of publication
Tübingen, Germany
Series
Biblio 17
UNE publication id
une:18038
Abstract
The image of François Hédelin as a tightrope walker is an amusing one, given the abbé's reputation as a stern and inflexible dramatic theoretician in seventeenth-century France. Nevertheless, it is this comparison that accurately represents abbé d'Aubignac's philosophical attitude towards the female sex. What is striking about all of Hédelin's fictional output is that the principal focus of his work is women - women of high political and social standing. One may speculate that the composition of these works is, in part, a manifestation of the abbé's fantasies about women, however subtle and innocent these notions appear to be.
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ISBN
9783823369745

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