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 arisratic males.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137346452
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Series:	Palgrave Pivot
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

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