Going public : women and publishing in early modern France / edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Dena Goodman.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.

viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

"Reason for the public to admire her" : why Madame de La Guette published her memoirs / Carolyn Chappell Lougee -- Publishing the lives of Hortense and Marie Mancini / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- Parisian guildswomen and the (sexual) politics of privilege : defending their patrimonies in print / Cynthia Maria Truant -- Victorious victims : women and publicity in Mémoires Judiciaires / Nadine Bérenguier -- Books and the birthing business : the midwife manuals of Madame du Coudray / Nina Rattner Gelbart -- Women's letters in the public sphere / Janet Gurkin Altman -- The (literary) world at war, or, what can happen when women go public / Joan DeJean -- Les Fées Modernes : women, fairy tales, and the literary field in late seventeenth-century France / Lewis C. Seifert -- The voices of shadows : Lafayette's Zaïde / Faith E. Beasley -- Making sex public : Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse and the lewd novel / Kathryn Norberg -- The salon woman goes public ... or does she? / Erica Harth -- Publishing without perishing : Isabelle de Charrière, a.k.a. la mouche du coche / Susan K. Jackson -- Suzanne Necker's Mélanges : gender, writing, and publicity / Dena Goodman -- Laws of nature/rights of genius : the Drame of Constance de Salm / Elizabeth Colwill.

Includes bibliographic references and index