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Male and Female Roles in the Eighteenth Century
Kathleen M. Jaeger
其他書名
The Challenge to Replacement and Displacement in the Novels of Isabelle de Charrière
出版P. Lang, 1994
主題History / Europe / WesternHistory / Europe / FranceHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Modern / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentitySocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN08204217909780820421797
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=krkKAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A contemporary of the French philosophes and in subtle dialogue with them, Isabelle de Charrière weaves a compelling novelistic framework that intrigues readers of women's writing. This study focuses on novels by the 18th-century Charrière writing in francophone Switzerland. It explores her determination to dehierarchize the positions of male and female in 18th-century society and to reject the conventional ideal of human destiny. The study simultaneously traces the transition from an Ancien Régime concept of self, particularly the female self, to a Romantic conception of the individual and modern individualism through the evolution of character. In order to present new conclusions, it considers Charrière's novels within a «feminine tradition» dating from the 17th century and also in the light of current French feminist theory.