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Letters, learning and Learned Ladies - An Analysis of Otto Sperling, Jr:s (1634-1715) correspondence with Scandinavian Women.

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Author

Editor

  • Toon van Houdt
  • Gilbert Tournoy
  • C. Matheeussen

Summary, in English

The paper offers an analysis of some aspects (pragmatic, status, personal, feminist and stylistic) of the letters exchanged between the Danish Profesor Otto Sperling, Jr, 1634-1715) and three learned women (Anne Margrethe Qvitzow, the Cille Gad and Sophia Elisabeth Brenner), differentiating between the personal elements and the more formal and image-building ones in order to create a basis for a discussion on the postitions held by the correspondents.

Department/s

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

199-223

Publication/Series

Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia

Volume

XVIII

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • Otto Sperling Jr
  • Sophia Elisabeth Brenner
  • feminae doctae
  • Cille Gad
  • Neo-Latin correspondence
  • Learned Ladies
  • Anne Margrethe Quitzow

Conference name

Self-Presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times.

Conference date

2000-05-24 - 2000-05-28

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 90-5867-212-3