Scudéry's portraits: patriarchy, agency, and genre.
In the ongoing project of recovering and (re)integrating early modern European women philosophers, scholars have been re-examining not only who counts as a philosopher, but what kinds of works are properly understood as philosophical. Madeleine de Scudéry is best remembered as a novelist, but some s...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 492 - 515 |
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