Samenvatting
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.
Inhoudsopgave
Portraying Female Intellectual Authority An Introduction Beatrijs Vanacker and Lieke van Deinsen Part I: Individual and Collective Portraits of Female Intellectual Authority Chapter 1 ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna Caroline Paganussi Chapter 2 Epistolary Relationship and Intellectual Identity in Maria Antonia of Saxony’s Correspondence with Frederick the Great, 1763–1779 Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Chapter 3 Between Defence and Affirmation: The Discursive Self- Representation of Eighteenth-Century Women Authors in France and Italy Rotraud von Kulessa (translated by Kristen Gehrman) Chapter 4 The Visual and Textual Portraits of Mme de Genlis: The Gouverneur, Educator, and Author of the Mémoires Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval (translated by Kristen Gehrman) Chapter 5 (Self-)Portrait of the Woman as (a Reluctant?) Authority Catriona Seth Part II: Types and Models of Female Intellectual Authority Chapter 6 Penning the Midwife’s Experience: Professional Skills, Publication, and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe Valerie Worth-Stylianou Chapter 7 Women’s Strength Made Perfect in Weakness: Paratextual Authority Constructions in Printed Vernacular Religious Literature by Early Modern Dutch Women Writers Nina Geerdink and Feike Dietz Chapter 8 ‘Instructing herself by fad or fancy’: Depictions and Fictions of Connoisseuses and Femmes Savantes in Eighteenth-Century Paris Belinda Scerri Chapter 9 Portraits of Female Mentors in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) Aurélie Griffin Chapter 10 Matrona Docta: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Macaulay in the Guise of the Roman Matrona Seren Nolan Part III: The Diachronic Dynamics of Female Intellectual Authority Chapter 11 Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, as an Intellectual in Seventeenth- Century Collective Biographies Armel Dubois-Nayt Chapter 12 Women Jurists? Representations of Female Intellectual Authority in Eighteenth-Century Jurisprudence Laura Beck Varela Chapter 13 ‘Diotime’ and ‘La Muse Belgique’: The Intellectual Mobility and Divergent Legacies of Amalia Gallitzin and Marie-Caroline Murray Lien Verpoest Chapter 14 ‘It Wasn’t Enough for Me Just to Be a Singer’: (Self-)Representations of the ‘German Prima Donna’ Gertrud Elisabeth Mara Vera Viehöver About the Authors Plates
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