Dr. Olivia Tolley on 'Rire et écrire: (de)gendering laughter with Madame de Riccoboni (1757-1759)'
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
What did it mean to laugh as a woman in eighteenth-century France? How, why, when and where did they laugh? And what rules and codes governed this kind of expression? This reading group will explore laughter in Madame de Riccoboni’s Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby à Milady Henriette Campley, son amie (1759) as a way of thinking through these questions.
This reading group is linked to Olivia’s current, postdoctoral project, exploring the configuration of the laughing woman in early modern French literature and culture, as a figure that occupies the intersection between gender, subversion and humour.
If you would like to attend, then please contact Dr. Ann Lewis for the reading materials: a.lewis@bbk.ac.uk
Contact name:
Dr. Ann Lewis