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Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782 (Paperback)
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Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782 (Paperback)
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Analyzing four best-selling novels - by both women and men -
written in the feminine voice, this book traces how the creation of
women-centered salons and the emergence of a feminine poetic style
engendered a new type of literature in eighteenth-century France.
The author argues that writing in a female voice allowed writers of
both sexes to break with classical notions of literature and style,
so that they could create a modern sensibility that appealed to a
larger reading public, and gave them scope to innovate with style
and form. Wolfgang brings to light how the 'female voice' in
literature came to embody the language of sociability, but also
allowed writers to explore the domain of inter-subjectivity, while
creating new bonds between writers and the reading public. Through
examination of Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Graffigny's Lettres
d'une Peruvienne, Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd,
and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, she shows that in France,
this modern 'feminine' sensibility turned the least prestigious of
literary genres - the novel - into the most compelling and
innovative literary form of the eighteenth century. Emphasizing how
the narratives analyzed here refashioned the French literary world
through their linguistic innovation and expression of new forms of
subjectivity, this study claims an important role for
feminine-voice narratives in shaping the field of
eighteenth-century literature.
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