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Women's Literary Salons and Political Propaganda During the Napoleonic Era: The Cradle of Patriotic Nationalism
Author(s): Sharon Worley (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 556 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773438351
- ISBN-13: 9780773438354
Book Description
Women’s literary salons reflected their political agenda to overthrow a patriarchal tyrannical order that had displaced the former Republican value of social equality or monarchist values of self-rule and nationalism. The issue of womens’ citizenship and social equality was overturned during the early Republic, and precluded again by imperial Napoleonic regime. Thus, womens’ novels, correspondence, and dramas represented an alternative to direct political participation by presenting moral and patriotic role models designed to instill republican or monarchist values in their audience through contemporary theories of epistemology.
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Women’s literary salons reflected their political agenda to overthrow a patriarchal tyrannical order that had displaced the former Republican value of social equality or monarchist values of self-rule and nationalism. The issue of womens’ citizenship and social equality was overturned during the early Republic, and precluded again by imperial Napoleonic regime. Thus, womens’ novels, correspondence, and dramas represented an alternative to direct political participation by presenting moral and patriotic role models designed to instill republican or monarchist values in their audience through contemporary theories of epistemology.
About the Author
Sharon Worley is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Downtown. She is a former Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas (2008-09). She received her Ph.D. in Aesthetics-Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas (2007), and her M.A. in Art History from Tufts iniversity (1991). She is the former curator of the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester, MA (1993-2000). She has taught at Houston,Texas area colleges since 2000, including Houston Community College.
