EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS:

SECONDARY STUDIES

• General Studies on Literature and Gender in Early Modern France
• Other Background Studies Not Directly Related to Women
• Studies on Individual Writers (A-F)
• Studies on Individual Writers (G-M)
• Studies on Individual Writers (N-Z)

1. Albistur, Maite, and Daniel Armogathe. Histoire du féminisme français. 5 vols. Paris: des femmes, c1977.
2. Backer, Dorothy Anne Liot. Precious Women: A Feminist Phenomenon in the Age of Louis XIV. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
3. Beasley, Faith E. Revising Memory: Women's Fictions and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1990.
4. Berriot-Salvadore, E. Les femmes dans la société française de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 1990.
5. Burns, E. Jane. When Women Speak in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
6. DeJean, Joan. Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
7. DeJean, Joan and Nancy K. Miller, eds. Displacements: Women, Tradition, Literature in France. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
8. Didier, Béatrice. L'écriture-femme. Paris: Presses Universitaires Françaises, 1981.
9. Ezell, Margaret J.M. Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
10. Ferguson, Margaret W. et al, eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourse of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
11. Gibson, Wendy. Women in Seventeenth-Century France. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
12. Goldsmith, Elizabeth. Exclusive Conversations: The Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1988.
13. Goldsmith, Elizabeth and Dena Goodman, eds. Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1995.
14. Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters : a Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell UP, 1994. [This book goes a bit beyond our scope but does make the connection between 17th and 18th century women writers.]
15. Guillerm, J.P., L. Guillerm, L. Hordoir, M.F. Piejus, eds. Miroir de femmes: moralistes et polémistes au XVIème siècle. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983.
16. Hanley, Sarah. "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France." French Historical Studies 16.1 (Spring 1989): 4-27.
17. Harth, Erica. Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.
18. Harth, Erica. Ideology and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.
19. Henderson, Katherine and Barbara McManus. Half Humankind. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
20. Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
21. Jordon, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.
22. Kelly, Joan. Women, History, and Theory: the Essays of Joan Kelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
23. Kelso, Ruth. Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956.
24. King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
25. King, Margaret L. and Albert Rabil, eds. Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocentro Italy. Binghamton, New York: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983.
26. Larsen, Anne and Colette Winn, eds. Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts. Detroit: Wayne State UP,1994.
27. Lougee, Carolyn C. Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1976.
28. Loskoutoff, Yvan. La Sainte et la fée: Devotion à l'enfant Jésus et mode des contes merveilleux à la fin du regne de Louis XIV. Geneve: Droz, 1987.
29. Maclean, Ian. The Renaissance Notion of Woman. A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
30. Maclean, Ian. Woman Triumphant: Feminism in French Literature, 1610-1652. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977.
31. Parker, Patricia. Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property. London: Methuen and Co. Press, 1987.
32. Portemer, Jean. "Le Statut de la femme en France depuis la réformation des coutumes jusqu'à la rédaction du code civil." Receuils de la Societe Jean Bodin 12 (1962): 447-97.
33. Roelker, Nancy. "The Appeal of Calvinism to French Noblewomen in the Sixteenth Century." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2 (Spring 1972): 391-418.
34. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
35. Scott, Joan W. "Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis." American Historical Review 91.9 (1986): 1053-1075.
36. Seifert, Lewis C. Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
37. Showalter, English. The Evolution of the French Novel (1641-1782). Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.
38. Weisner, Merry. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
39. Wilson, Katharina, ed. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
    
    
    

1. Adam, Antoine. Histoire de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle. 5 vols. Paris: del Duca, 1968.
2. Apostolides, Jean-Marie. Le Roi machine. Paris: Minuit, 1981.
3. Aries, Philippe. L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Regime. Paris: Seuil, 1973.
4. Aries, Philippe. "De la Renaissance aux Lumières." vol. 3 of Histoire de la vie privée. Ed. Philippe Aries and Georges Duby. 5 vols. Paris: Seuil, 1985-1987.
5. Chartier, Roger. Culture écrite et société : l'ordre des livres, XIVe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: A. Michel, c1996.
6. Chartier, Roger, ed. Les Usages de l'imprimé: (XVe-XIXe siècle). Paris : Fayard, c1987.
7. Elias, Norbert. The Court Society. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Pantheon, 1983.
8. Moriarty, Michael. Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.
9. Reiss, Timothy J. The Discourse of Modernism. Ithaca : Cornell UP, 1982.
10. Viala, Alain. La Naissance de l'écrivain: Sociologie de la littérature a l'age classique. Paris: Minuit, 1985.