Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Monagle, Clare
James, Carolyn (19..-.... ; historienne)
Garrioch, David (1955-....)
Caine, Barbara (1948-....)
Titre(s) : European women's letter-writing from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries [Texte imprimé] / Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch and Barbara Caine
Publication : Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 296 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [271]-289. Notes bibliogr. Index
"This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women
between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways
that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over
this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited
women's engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the
renaissance court, or the artisan's workshop, or the drawing room, letters crossed
geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways that women themselves could
not always be. Women wrote to govern, to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also
wrote to express love and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand
themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial place for European
women's self-fashioning, and that exploring the history of their letters offers a
profound insight into their subjectivity and agency over time."
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Correspondance -- Europe -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-94-6372-338-1 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47300738k
Notice n° :
FRBNF47300738
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)