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Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750) - The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750) (Hardcover)
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Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750) - The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650-1750) (Hardcover)
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Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's
Theater (1650-1750) argues that women playwrights question
traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the
powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right
to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays
by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on
the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the
boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in plays from the
mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a
shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. I argue
that the "deliberative heroine," emerging at the dawn of the
eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the
characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Although she embodies
many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also
responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on
Enlightenment ideals-such as women's ability to rationalize and the
complex interplay between reason and sentiment-truly liberates
female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas
other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on
impulse, the "deliberative heroine" realizes the ideals of the
seventeenth-century salons that petitioned for women to have
"greater control over their own bodies" (DeJean 21). She is active,
and her determination to follow through with her own line of
reasoning-that involves both mind and heart-enables her to
determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of
heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their
own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of
Enlightenment.
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