Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720 (eBook, ePUB)

From Voice to Print

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Goldsmith here examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life stories; in doing so, she explores what the writers have to say about why they decide to write about themselves, what they choose to write, how they get their stories circulated and printed, and what they do to defend themselves against the threat to personal reputation and credibility that was implied by such public self-exposure. Goldsmith scrutinizes the autobiographical writing of six women, considering the different forms that the life writing of these women took: autobiographies; letter correspondences (which in four of the six cases have never before been published); trial transcripts; testimonials published as part of other authors' works; and written self-portraits that were circulated among friends. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certeau on voice and communities of readers in the 17th century, as well as the work of Roger Chartier and other historians of the book and print culture, Goldsmith retraces the complicated networks of human interaction that underlie these early autobiographies and their publication history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351907514
• Artikelnr.: 47955225

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Discovering New Worlds: Marie de l' Incarnation and the Process of Autobiography
Public Sanctity and Private Writing: The Autobiography of Jeanne des Anges
Silent Communications: The Life and Letters of Jeanne Guyon
Scripting Errant Lives: The Memoirs of Hortense and Marie Mancini
Overheard Conversations: Madame de Villedieu's Autobiographical Fictions
Conclusion
Index.