Chapter
Open Access
Introduction
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Carin Franzén
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Contributors VII
- Introduction 1
- Domenica da Paradiso and the Prophetic Discipline of the Body and Soul 11
- Subversive Bodies and the Sense of the Senses: Lavinia Fontana, Tullia d’Aragona and Gaspara Stampa 31
- A Female Dissenter in Counter-Reformation Spain: Oliva Sabuco de Nantes, Between Epicureanism and Stoicism 57
- Epicurean Virtues for a Post-Heroic Age? Tracing the Critique of Heroism in Antoinette Deshoulières’ Poetry and Drama 77
- Disguised Body, Two-Faced Text: Storytelling as a Game of Power in Villedieu’s Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière 99
- Queen Christina’s Heroism: The Writing of Maxims as a Way Through Subjectivation 119
- Making Sense of Sorrow: Poetic Authority and the Bodily Experience of Grief in Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht’s The Grieving Turtle Dove 137
- Index of Names 161
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Contributors VII
- Introduction 1
- Domenica da Paradiso and the Prophetic Discipline of the Body and Soul 11
- Subversive Bodies and the Sense of the Senses: Lavinia Fontana, Tullia d’Aragona and Gaspara Stampa 31
- A Female Dissenter in Counter-Reformation Spain: Oliva Sabuco de Nantes, Between Epicureanism and Stoicism 57
- Epicurean Virtues for a Post-Heroic Age? Tracing the Critique of Heroism in Antoinette Deshoulières’ Poetry and Drama 77
- Disguised Body, Two-Faced Text: Storytelling as a Game of Power in Villedieu’s Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière 99
- Queen Christina’s Heroism: The Writing of Maxims as a Way Through Subjectivation 119
- Making Sense of Sorrow: Poetic Authority and the Bodily Experience of Grief in Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht’s The Grieving Turtle Dove 137
- Index of Names 161
