Rewriting History: Marie Dronsart's Grandes voyageuses and Portraits d'outre-Manche

Autor:	Barbara Pauk
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Minor (academic) Femininity Language and Linguistics Feminism Scholarship Portrait Memoir Realm Spite media_common
Zdroj:	Nottingham French Studies. 51:147-162
ISSN:	2047-7236 0029-4586
DOI:	10.3366/nfs.2012.0016
Popis:	During the nineteenth century, historical writing generally reflected the idea that women played only minor roles in the public realm and in history. In the 1880s and 1890s, when feminism emerged more forcefully, the French woman Marie Dronsart endeavoured to rewrite history in her works Portraits d'outre-Manche and Les grandes voyageuses, as well as through her translation of Queen Victoria's memoirs. Dronsart, in spite of her numerous works and translations, has scarcely received any critical attention so far. Addressing this gap in scholarship, this paper will argue that Dronsart tries to assert the importance of women's roles in history without offending conservative sensibilities. I will investigate how Dronsart negotiates the various discourses on feminism and femininity through different strategies, most importantly by enmeshing discourses on women with discourses on the English nation, and by drawing on stereotypes and specific English sources.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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