Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France

In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions.

Line Cottegnies, Ph.D. (1994), Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, is Professor of English Renaissance Literature at that university. She has published widely on Caroline poetry, early-modern women authors and translation. She also has an interest in editing early modern texts. Sandrine Parageau, Ph.D. (2008), Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, is lecturer in English history at Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense. She has publishedLes Ruses de l’ignorance (Paris: 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on women philosophers. John J. Thompson, D.Phil (1983), Queen’s University, Belfast, is Professor of English Textual Cultures in the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. He is author of two monographs and many essays on English lay reading experience, c. 1300-1600. Contributors are Yan Brailowsky, Laetitia Coussement-Boillot, Armel Dubois-Nayt, Adeline Gargam, Sarah Hutton, Neil Kenny, Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, Laura Levine, Christophe Martin, Marie-Frederique Pellegrin, Beth Fowkes Tobin, and Susan Wiseman