Reading Olympe de Gouges

by C. Sherman

Overview

Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137343062
Publisher:	Palgrave Pivot
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	116
File size:	268 KB

About the Author

Carol L. Sherman is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Reception 2. The Drama of Rhetoric 3. The Rhetoric of Drama