The Center of Excellence will host Professor Jennifer Tamas for a lecture in Independence Hall 100.
In this presentation, Jennifer Tamas will show how the "male gaze" prevailed in establishing the French classics and their reception. By selecting authors deemed essential to our literary heritage and by erasing the works of women writers, the patriarchal gaze undervalued female agency in well-known works of fiction such as Andromague, La Princesse de Clèves, and Little Red Riding Hood.
Professor Tamas's study also unveils women's resistance at a time when galanterie was at once a means of seduction and an ideal shaped by both men and women. Surprisingly, heroines of the Grand Siècle can empower us with accounts of their struggle and help us reclaim an undervalued literary matrimoine.
This event is free and open to the public. It is offered both in person and virtually. Please use one of the buttons below to register to attend.
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