Textual transvestism : (re)visions of Heloise (17th-18th-centuries)

Textual transvestism : (re)visions of Heloise (17th-18th-centuries) / Nancy M. Arenberg.

"Textual Transvestism analyzes the flourishing of imitative versions of Heloise's and Abelard's love correspondence in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Current theoretical approaches on epistolarity, narratology, cultural, feminist and gender studies have been used to focus on the va...

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Main Author: Arenberg, Nancy M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2015.
Series:Faux titre ; 398.
Subjects:
Abelard, Peter, > 1079-1142.
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 > Influence > 17th century.
Abelard, Peter, > 1079-1142 > Influence > 17th century.
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 > Influence > 18th century.
Abelard, Peter, > 1079-1142 > Influence > 18th century.
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Abelard, Peter, > 1079-1142
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
1600-1799
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Medieval.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION: Writing Love: The Origins of the Letter Novel in France
  • Abelard's Historia Calamitatum
  • The Genesis of the Love Letter
  • Grenaille's Eloize as "La Magdalene Française"
  • Bussy Rabutin's Letters
  • Fictional Transformation of the Lovers
  • Dom Gervaise's Repentant Translation of Heloise and Abelard
  • The Hysterical and Pastoral Heloise
  • Julie or the Devout Heloise
  • Learned Heloise Regained
  • EPILOGUE: The Revival of Heloise in Popular Culture
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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