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Gender, authenticity, and the missive letter in eighteenth-century France : Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau's real-life Julie / Mary McAlpin.
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View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAlpin, Mary, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- La Tour, Marianne Alissan de, 1730-1789.
- Letter writing, French--History--18th century.
- Letter writing, French.
- French letters--Women authors--History and criticism.
- French letters.
- La Tour, Marianne Alissan de, 1730-1789--Correspondence--History and criticism.
- La Tour, Marianne Alissan de.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Correspondence--History and criticism.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Women authors.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Julie Lives to Love You 11
- 1 Claire and Julie Write Saint-Preux 27
- 2 Going Public: "Mme de ***, Amie de Jean-Jacques" 61
- 3 The Sanctity of the Reader's Response: Eighteenth-Century Critical Assessments of the Missive Letter 100
- 4 Authenticity Devalued: Contemporary Epistolary Theory 134
- 5 Postscript: De La Tour, James Boswell, Henriette ***, and Gender Theory 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838756522
- OCLC:
- 63171222
- Publisher Number:
- 9780838756522
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