The Fiction of Enlightenment

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The Fiction of Enlightenment
The Fiction of Enlightenment
Author : Heidi Bostic
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Publisher : Unknown
Language : English
Release Date : 06 May 2024
ISBN : UOM:39076002862741
Pages : 280 pages
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"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 caricatured construct; second, works of fiction can illuminate Enlightenment. The book offers fresh readings of texts by the three most prominent women among eighteenth-century writers in French: Francoise de Graffigny, Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, and Isabelle de Charriere, These authors challenged the widely held idea that women's reason was inferior to men's. Literary forms - novels, stories, plays, essays, and letters - allowed these authors to approach the question of reason in particularly nuanced ways. Faithful to the eighteenth century, this project is also relevant to the twenty-first." --Book Jacket.

The Fiction of Enlightenment

The Fiction of Enlightenment by Heidi Bostic

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