The aging of women in comedies of the earlier 18th century: “female destiny” or gender trouble?
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2023.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Based on a corpus of six comedies written by Legrand, Destouches, Dufresny and Marivaux, this article sets out to show that the introduction in these plays of a specific temporality germane to novels, allows them to represent elderly women not as a fixed category, embodied by a comic type, but as the ageing of women, i.e a process of becoming. This shift allows comedies of the early 18th century to problematize the evolution of the feminine over time, and to represent female senescence as a progressive queerization, that is to say as a blurring of gender lines.
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Based on a corpus of six comedies written by Legrand, Destouches, Dufresny and Marivaux, this article sets out to show that the introduction in these plays of a specific temporality germane to novels, allows them to represent elderly women not as a fixed category, embodied by a comic type, but as the ageing of women, i.e a process of becoming. This shift allows comedies of the early 18th century to problematize the evolution of the feminine over time, and to represent female senescence as a progressive queerization, that is to say as a blurring of gender lines.
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