Title The fiction of enlightenment : women of reason in the French eighteenth century / Heidi Bostic

Published Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary "This book argues that women authors of the French eighteenth century claimed reason and contributed to Enlightenment. It begins by framing the Enlightenment as fiction, in two senses: first, what passes under the name of Enlightenment in much current critical discourse is a fiction, or a caricatured construct; second, works of fiction can illuminate Enlightenment. The book offers fresh readings of texts by the three most prominent women among eighteenth-century writers in French: Francoise de Graffigny, Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, and Isabelle de Charriere, These authors challenged the widely held idea that women's reason was inferior to men's. Literary forms - novels, stories, plays, essays, and letters - allowed these authors to approach the question of reason in particularly nuanced ways. Faithful to the eighteenth century, this project is also relevant to the twenty-first."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-259) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières, 1713-1792 -- Criticism and interpretation Charrière, Isabelle de, 1740-1805 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Charrière, Isabelle de, 1740-1805 fast Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758 fast Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières, 1713-1792 fast Grafigny, Françoise D'Issembourg D'Happoncourt de. swd Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières. swd Charrière, Isabelle de. swd Graffigny, Françoise de. idszbz Riccoboni, Marie-Jeanne. idszbz Charrière, Isabelle A. de. idszbz Subject French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Reason in literature. Women and literature -- France -- History -- 18th century Women -- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Enlightenment -- France Enlightenment French fiction French fiction -- Women authors Reason in literature Women and literature Women -- Intellectual life Schriftstellerin Aufklärung Frauenliteratur. Verstand. Emanzipation. Aufklärung. Motiv. France Frankreich Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009020791 ISBN 0874135109 9780874135107

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