Louise de Keralio, Enlightenment Intellectual
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 June 2026
- ISBN 9780198988311
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 241x165x27 mm
- Weight 867 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this first book-length study of prolific polymath Louise de Keralio (1756–1822), Vicki Mistacco offers a comprehensive reading of her entire body of writing and a new understanding of Keralio as an Enlightenment intellectual and a modern feminist thinker.
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In this first booklength study of prolific polymath Louise de Keralio (1756–1822), Vicki Mistacco offers a comprehensive reading of her entire body of writing and a new understanding of Keralio as an Enlightenment intellectual and a modern feminist thinker. Mistacco adopts a fresh approach to Keralio's published and unpublished writing, undertaking close textual analysis informed by feminist literary criticism and French feminist theory, and carefully reconstructing the historical and cultural context, in order to challenge the critical commonplace that Keralio is a puzzling "sexist republican." She cautions against a piecemeal approach focused almost exclusively on Keralio's writings during the French Revolution. Reading literarily rather than literally, she argues against imposing modern definitions of feminist activism on Keralio and for considering instead the anti-patriarchal, anti-hierarchical, and anti-exclusionary paradigm at the core of her thinking, a both/and rather than either/or paradigm, which Keralio comes to envisage as a maternal one, reflected in the recurring motif of crossing boundaries. Through sustained analysis of works that have hitherto received only scant attention, Keralio's translations of John Carr's travelogues and her late novels (1808–1810), Mistacco sheds light on Keralio's use of "double-voiced discourse" to uphold her feminist ideals while ostensibly endorsing gender norms. The three parts of the book, "Women's Writing: Negotiating a Space," "Philosophizing in the Margins," and "The Missing Mother," trace the evolution in Keralio's thinking about the importance of including a matrimoine or maternal legacy in cultural patrimony, whether it be the contributions of French women writers to national identity and French genius (Collection des meilleurs ouvrages français composés par des femmes), or those of Queen Elizabeth to the history of European sovereignty (Histoire d'Élisabeth, reine d'Angleterre), or her own annotations to her translations, or in her late novels the testimony of women to arrive at historical truth. Mistacco shows how the idea of maternal legacy evolves into that of maternal Enlightenment, arguing that Keralio elevates the maternal to the level of philosophy and theorizes a new social contract based on an ethics of care. Including unpublished and archival texts, this book offers an important contribution to the history of women intellectuals of the Enlightenment.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Getting Beyond Piecemeal Keralio
Part One Women Writing: Negotiating a Space
"Le corps petit, mais l'âme grande": Voicing a Woman's Ambition
Keralio's Difference: An Anthology of French Women's Writing for the Enlightenment
Part Two Philosophizing in the Margins
The Translator as Philosopher
Reflections of an Enlightened Polymath
Part Three The Missing Mother
Left-Handed (Hi)stories: Enlightenment Thinking/Matrilineal Plots
Maternal Enlightenment: Amélia et Caroline
Critique: Alphonse et Mathilde
Monument to the Maternal: Rose et Albert, ou le Tombeau d'Emma
Appendix 1: Discours de remerciement, Académie d'Arras
Appendix 2: Preface, État des prisons
Appendix 3: The Problematic Crimes des reines de France
Appendix 4: The Lost Portrait
Bibliography
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