Epicurean Virtues for a Post-Heroic Age? Tracing the Critique of Heroism in Antoinette Deshoulières’ Poetry and Drama

Chapters in this book

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