Marie Riccoboni

Histoire d'Ernestine

An MLA Text Edition
Herausgeber: Stewart, Joan Hinde; Stewart, Philip

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches on a portrait when the marquis de Clémengis, elegant and handsome, enters the studio. Recognizing him as the subject of the portrait, she gestures for him to be seated and goes on working, looking back and forth between him and his likeness. The world-weary aristocrat is smitten. In graceful, understated prose, Marie Riccoboni shows how her heroine learns to negotiate questions of honor and appearances and to find a precarious balance between economic security and the potentially compromising nature of male generosity. The story raises questions about sexual enlightenment and social prejudice and reexamines the links of money, reputation, and marriageability that preoccupied eighteenth-century writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Critical edition
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 77g
• ISBN-13: 9780873527859
• ISBN-10: 0873527852
• Artikelnr.: 24953952

Autorenporträt

Marie Riccoboni (1713-92) was an actress and a writer who published more than twenty works. Appearing in 1765, Histoire d'Ernestine was a critical and popular success. Riccoboni was among the first women to support themselves through their writing.