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Les livres et les lectures d'une princesse au XVIIe siècle : Marie Ernestine d'Eggenberg et sa bibliothèque en Bohême
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ISBN: 9782745352460 2745352466 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris Honoré Champion

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Parmi les bibliothèques constituées par la noblesse d’origine étrangère au XVIIe siècle sur le territoire de l’actuelle Bohême, plusieurs sont étroitement liées à l’histoire culturelle de la France. Tel est le cas de la bibliothèque seigneuriale de Crumau/Český Krumlov, particulièrement riche en belles-lettres et littérature éducative, dont l’ouvrage présente le contenu et la genèse. Ce livre révèle les pratiques littéraires de Marie Ernestine de Schwarzenberg, épouse Eggenberg (1649-1719), aristocrate très en vue à la Cour de Léopold Ier et pourtant vivant en province, entre Prague et Vienne. Elle chercha la quiétude et l’équilibre chez Sénèque et y trouva comment concilier la réalité vécue avec les prescriptions proposées par le respect de l’honnêteté chrétienne. Les observations et les réflexions inscrites de sa main sur beaucoup de livres reflètent le savoir intellectuel et l’esprit critique de cette honnête femme, aristocrate accomplie, ainsi que son aspiration à s’instruire. Elle cherchait, dans ses multiples lectures, tout ce qui touche à l’homme et à ses relations aux autres.


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Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England
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ISBN: 9781350110038 9781350110021 9781350110014 1350110027 9781350246638 1350110043 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : London : The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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"This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books."--


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Conduct books and the history of the ideal woman
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ISBN: 1785273159 1785273140 1785273167 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. "Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman" examines six centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women's roles and abilities. Close readings of numerous conduct manuals from Britain and America, written by men and women, explain and contextualize the legacy of sexism as represented in prescriptive writing for women from 1372 to the present. While existing period-specific studies of conduct manuals consider advice literature within the society that wrote and read them, "Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman" provides the only analysis of both the volumes themselves and the larger debates taking place within their pages across the centuries. Combining textual literary analysis with a social history sensibility while remaining accessible to expert and novice, this book will help readers understand the on-going debate about the often-contradictory guidelines for female behavior.

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