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This article explores the women’s interventions in an overlooked eighteenth-century quarrel about how to reform literary teaching in the boys’ collèges. It begins by introducing this quarrel, here called the querelle des collèges, that involved more than 120 actors, just 3 of whom are known to be women. After presenting the quarrel texts written by Adelaïde d’Espinassy; Joséphine de Monbart; and Anne d’Aubourg de La Bove, comtesse de Miremont; the article explores why and how these women engaged in such a highly publicized, male-dominated quarrel. They intervened, the article shows, to redirect public interest in reforming boys’ schools toward reforming girls’ education. And they employed creative strategies to minimize the risk they ran, as women, by quarreling. By embedding their texts in other, existing disputes concerning women, and by engaging creatively with agonistic discursive practices usually reserved for men, these women destabilized this masculine dispute. In so doing, they reclaimed some room in this quarrel (and others like it) for women.
本文探讨了18世纪一场被忽视的关于如何改革男校文学教学的争论中女性的介入。它首先介绍了这场争吵,这里被称为“争吵”,涉及120多名演员,其中只有3名是女性。在展示了Adelaïde d 'Espinassy写的争吵文本后;乔斯芬·德·蒙巴特;还有米雷蒙伯爵夫人安妮·德·奥堡·德·拉博夫;这篇文章探讨了这些女性为什么以及如何卷入这样一场高度公开的、男性主导的争吵。文章显示,他们的干预是为了将公众对改革男校的兴趣转向改革女校。她们采用了创造性的策略,将她们作为女性争吵的风险降到最低。通过将她们的文本嵌入其他关于女性的现有争议中,并创造性地参与通常为男性保留的激烈话语实践,这些女性破坏了这种男性争议的稳定性。通过这样做,他们在这场争吵(以及其他类似的争吵)中为女性争取了一些空间。
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The Romanic Review is a journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures.Founded by Henry Alfred Todd in 1910, it is published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University in cooperation with the Departments of Spanish and Italian. The journal is published four times a year (January, March, May, November) and balances special thematic issues and regular unsolicited issues. It covers all periods of French, Italian and Spanish-language literature, and welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.