Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...