Marijn S Kaplan

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Epistolary Feminism

Fact, Fiction, and Voice

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Marijn S. Kaplan juxtaposes Riccoboni's epistolary fiction with some of her relatively unknown letters to her publisher, editors, Diderot, Laclos etc. (included, with translations), tracing related proto-feminist strategies in both to her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780367858520
• ISBN-10: 0367858525
• Artikelnr.: 59843950

Autorenporträt

Marijn S. Kaplan is a Professor of French at the University of North Texas, where she also chairs the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century French women writers-particularly Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Françoise de Graffigny, and Sophie Cottin-epistolary fiction, and correspondence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE: RICCOBONI'S FICTION
Chapter 1: Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757):
The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of Facts
Chapter 2: Proto-Feminist Female Identity through Marginal Epistolarity:
From Lettres de Juliette Catesby (1759) to Histoire de Miss Jenny
(1764)
Chapter 3: Perfecting Epistolary Feminism:
From Lettres d'Adélaïde de Dammartin (1767) to Lettres de Sophie
de Vallière (1772)
Chapter 4: Culminating Epistolary Feminism:
Lettres de Mylord Rivers (1777)
Chapter 5: Epistolary Feminism Attacked in Translation:
Percival Stockdale's Letters from Lord Rivers (1778)
PART TWO: RICCOBONI'S CORRESPONDENCE
Chapter 6: Epistolary Feminism and Letters
Chapter 7: Final Published Letters: Thicknesse (1780) and Laclos (1782)
Conclusion
Appendix