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Through strangers' eyes : fictional foreigners in old regime France /
"In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished showing naive outsiders who come to Europe and are amazed at what they see. Foreign travelers first set foot in Europe in the sixteenth century and are memorably present in Montaigne's essay "Des Cannibales" (1580). The genre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;
v. 33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Montaigne's Cannibals. Montaigne's unknowable Cannibals
- Montesquieu's Persians. The men's quest for knowledge: the impossibility of transcendence ; Women's knowledge: the temptation of equality ; Who are the eunuchs? ; Montesquieu's "Introduction" and "Réflexions" and the question of the "secret chain"
- Graffigny's elusive Peruvian. Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne: giving (and) reading
- Nature affirmed and nature denied. Voltaire's L'Ingénu and Claire de Duras's Ourika: the aristocracy's betrayals.