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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819218303321
• Autore: Bostic Heidi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newark, : University of Delaware Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0-87413-510-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 843/.5099287
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.