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

"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 caric...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bostic, Heidi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.