{"id":16546,"date":"2026-07-30T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/?p=16546"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:27:41","slug":"parution-de-notre-adherente-vicki-mistacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/parution-de-notre-adherente-vicki-mistacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Parution de notre adh\u00e9rente Vicki Mistacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Louise de Keralio, Enlightenment Intellectual<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oxford, Oxford University Press, juin 2026, 432 p., 119 \u00a3<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"product_details_bg\">\n<div id=\"overview_tab\" class=\"pdptab\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content_centre_double product_biblio increased_font_size\">\n<ul>\n<li>Draws on unpublished archival material, including letters unseen by other scholars and bankruptcy inventories. It publishes in appendices Keralio&#8217;s thought-to-be-lost acceptance speech to the Academy of Arras and a rare preface to a translation by her, suppressed from almost all known copies of the book and unknown to scholars<\/li>\n<li>First comprehensive study of Keralio&#8217;s entire corpus and the first book ever devoted to her prolific output of over 40 volumes and countless articles for the political newspaper she founded and directed<\/li>\n<li>Two chapters devoted to her extensive commentary on her translations of two early 19th-century travelogues and four devoted to her late novels of 1808-1810. These are the first in-depth studies of these post-revolutionary works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"block_heading\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"expanding_content_container\" class=\"expanding_content_container\">\n<div id=\"expanding_content_container_outer\" class=\"expanding_content_container_outer\">\n<div class=\"expanding_content_container_inner_narrow\">\n<p>In this first book\u00adlength study of prolific polymath Louise de Keralio (1756\u20131822), Vicki Mistacco offers a comprehensive reading of her entire body of writing and a new understanding of Keralio as an Enlightenment intellectual and a modern feminist thinker. Mistacco adopts a fresh approach to Keralio&#8217;s published and unpublished writing, undertaking close textual analysis informed by feminist literary criticism and French feminist theory, and carefully reconstructing the historical and cultural context, in order to challenge the critical commonplace that Keralio is a puzzling &#8220;sexist republican.&#8221; She cautions against a piecemeal approach focused almost exclusively on Keralio&#8217;s writings during the French Revolution. Reading literarily rather than literally, she argues against imposing modern definitions of feminist activism on Keralio and for considering instead the anti-patriarchal, anti-hierarchical, and anti-exclusionary paradigm at the core of her thinking, a\u00a0<i>both\/and<\/i>\u00a0rather than\u00a0<i>either\/or<\/i>\u00a0paradigm, which Keralio comes to envisage as a maternal one, reflected in the recurring motif of crossing boundaries. Through sustained analysis of works that have hitherto received only scant attention, Keralio&#8217;s translations of John Carr&#8217;s travelogues and her late novels (1808\u20131810), Mistacco sheds light on Keralio&#8217;s use of &#8220;double-voiced discourse&#8221; to uphold her feminist ideals while ostensibly endorsing gender norms. The three parts of the book, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Writing: Negotiating a Space,&#8221; &#8220;Philosophizing in the Margins,&#8221; and &#8220;The Missing Mother,&#8221; trace the evolution in Keralio&#8217;s thinking about the importance of including a\u00a0<i>matrimoine<\/i>\u00a0or maternal legacy in cultural patrimony, whether it be the contributions of French women writers to national identity and French genius (<i>Collection des meilleurs ouvrages fran\u00e7ais compos\u00e9s par des femmes<\/i>), or those of Queen Elizabeth to the history of European sovereignty (<i>Histoire d&#8217;\u00c9lisabeth, reine d&#8217;Angleterre<\/i>), or her own annotations to her translations, or in her late novels the testimony of women to arrive at historical truth. Mistacco shows how the idea of maternal legacy evolves into that of maternal Enlightenment, arguing that Keralio elevates the maternal to the level of philosophy and theorizes a new social contract based on an ethics of care. Including unpublished and archival texts, this book offers an important contribution to the history of women intellectuals of the Enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/louise-de-keralio-enlightenment-intellectual-9780198988311?lang=3n&#038;cc=ge#\"><strong>Table des mati\u00e8res et commande en ligne<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise de Keralio, Enlightenment Intellectual Oxford, Oxford University Press, juin 2026, 432 p., 119 \u00a3 Draws on unpublished archival material, including letters unseen by other scholars and bankruptcy inventories. 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