Women in Print: Gender, Authorship, and Book Culture in Early Modern France

The relationships between gender, concepts of authorship, and early modern book culture in Renaissance France. What rhetorical, commercial, or textual strategies were used by printers, publishers, and writers, male and female alike, to create a new commodity, the female-authored book, and a new notion, that of "female author," at a time when the phrase was still an oxymoron. Readings from Marguerite de Navarre, Helisenne de Crenne, Pernette du Guillet, Louise Labé, the Dame des Roches, and Marie de Gournay.