Forensic storytelling and the literary roots of early modern feminism : reSisters / Barbara Abrams.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abrams, Barbara Lise, author.

Contributor:

• Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

• Routledge focus on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• French letters--History and criticism.
• French prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
• French prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
• Authors, French--18th century--Correspondence--History and criticism.
• Women authors, French--Correspondence--History and criticism.
• French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
• Women and literature--France--History--18th century.
• Letter writing, French--History--18th century.
• Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 161 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2024].

Biography/History:

Barbara Abrams is Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies and is Chair of the Department of History, Language, and Global Culture at Suffolk University, Boston. Her academic work focuses on French literature of the Enlightenment and Women's and Gender Studies. Her recent publications include several articles on women's epistolary writing in eighteenth-century France, the Factum as Fiction, and a new critical focus on the novels of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon. Her previous books include a multigraph project titled Reframing Rousseau's Le Lévite d'Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) and Le Bizarre and Le Décousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France, which examines the background of our modern concept of marginality by focusing on Diderot's materialist philosophy.

Contents:

• Forensic storytelling and antimonarchical epistolarity
• Les causes célèbres, factum or fiction? or: "That's what he said!"
• Tanastès est Satan: authenticity and audacity in the writings of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon
• Excess or success? the case of Mme Geneviève de Gravelle
• "What's in a name?": The case of Angélique Schwab
• Conclusion.

Notes:

• Routledge Focus--from cover
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Abrams, Barbara Lise. Forensic storytelling and the literary roots of early modern feminism

ISBN:

• 9780429001147
• 0429001142

Publisher Number:

40032190198

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.