La figure de la précieuse dans la littérature française au XVIIe siècle : analyse des Nouvelles ou Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane de Madeleine de La Calprenède

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Guiderdoni, Agnès

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Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée: sciences et métiers du livre (édition, librairie, bibliothèque)

Abstract

enThis thesis focuses on the précieuses in seventeenth-century French literature. These women imposed themselves in a patriarchal society by promoting female emancipation, the place of the female author in the literary world, and equal access to culture and knowledge for women and men by creating salons. They developed a new practice of love by the use of reason and a new literary genre called the "tender" by reviving medieval courteous love. They characterised their literature by the dominant presence of orality, conversation was fundamental, as well as by masculine honesty, an essential quality in seduction. They transmitted warnings and advice in their works, such as the attention that young girls should pay to the speeches of seducers or the importance of reason in the love relationship in order to avoid suffering from passion. These precious women established themselves as individuals and authors in the noble society of the 17th century, which displeased some men and writers who started a satire against them to discredit them.