Journal article
A woman’s words—from Le Brun-Pindare to Citoyenne Pipelet and Constance, Princesse de Salm
- Abstract:
- Right at the end of the eighteenth century, a famous poet, Ponce-Denis Écouchard Le Brun, denounced women writers and a literary dispute ensued. While it mobilized a number of authors, one poem stands out in accounts of the quarrel: Constance Pipelet’s “Épître aux femmes.” A study of the timeline shows that this was not in fact part of the original exchanges and that its central role is due on the one hand to a retrospective delineation of the events by a woman poet with a vested interest and, on the other, to its ambition and quality. The case poses several questions around authorial identity, gender-based judgments, the role of periodicals, and the literary construction of quarrels both as they occur and after they are over.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1215/00358118-9377382
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- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Journal:
- Romanic Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 112
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 505–521
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-05
- DOI:
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2688-5220
- ISSN:
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0035-8118
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1174344
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pubs:1174344
- Deposit date:
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2021-05-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2021 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Duke University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1215/00358118-9377382
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