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Virtue's Faults - Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
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Virtue's Faults - Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction (Hardcover)
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This study focuses on fiction written by women in the eighteenth
century to demonstrate how authors of the period implicitly
examined and resisted patrilineal models of relationship, including
the notions of literary tradition and of women's place in the
family and the domestic sphere. The author's analysis of fiction
from Lafayette to Austen argues that the concept of
"correspondence," as exemplified in epistolary fiction, leads to a
deeper understanding of the connections among French and English
women's works of the period.
The author shows how coherences of plot, theme, form, and image
link a group of over 100 little-known novels representing textual
exchanges between female characters to form a subgenre of French
and English epistolary fiction, a "fiction of women's
correspondence." More canonical works, beyond the strict confines
of form and period that define this subgenre, are reconsidered in
relation to it, notably Lafayette's The Princess of Cleves, which
is alluded to by several of the later writers. The author also
shows how works by Stael and Austen at the turn of the nineteenth
century display significant affiliations with the texts of "women's
correspondence," even as they represent a turning away from the
conventions that characterize the earlier subgenre.
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