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The fiction of enlightenment : women of reason in the French eighteenth century / Heidi Bostic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bostic, Heidi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- French fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- Reason in literature.
- Women and literature--France--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women--France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Women.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758--Criticism and interpretation.
- Grafigny.
- Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières, 1713-1792--Criticism and interpretation.
- Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières.
- Charrière, Isabelle de, 1740-1805--Criticism and interpretation.
- Charrière, Isabelle de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Enlightenment
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Women, Enlightenment, and the Salic Law of Reason
- Reason, Gender, and Masqueradein Françoise de Graffigny's "La Réunion du bon senset de l'esprit" and Phaza
- Reason as Remedy: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's L'Abeille, Histoire du marquis de Cressy, and Lettres de Mylord Rivers
- Reading Reason:Isabelle de Charrière'sPortrait de Zélide, Élise ou l'université, and "Des Auteurs et des livres"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87413-510-9
- OCLC:
- 761826004
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