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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and
Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women
writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary
feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de
Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and fiction, public and
private, Marijn S. Kaplan provides new evidence supporting both the
novel’s autobiography theory and de Maillebois hypothesis. Kaplan
then traces how Riccoboni progressively develops a proto-feminist
poetics of voice in her epistolary fiction, empowering women to
resist patriarchal efforts to silence and appropriate them, which
culminates in her final novel Lettres de Milord Rivers (1777). In
nineteen relatively unknown letters (included, with translations)
written over three decades to her publisher Humblot, several
editors, Diderot, Laclos, Philip Thicknesse etc., Riccoboni is
shown similarly to defend her oeuvre, her reputation, and her
authority as a woman (writer), refusing to be manipulated and
silenced by men.
This edition connects four female writers from two different
countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most
popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of
them.
Often linked to the works of early Romanticism, Sophie Cottin's
Malvina (1803) was a bestselling sentimental novel. First published
in France, the English translation by Elizabeth Gunning - a
prolific novelist in her own right - allowed Cottin's book to
achieve success internationally. This is the first modern scholarly
edition of Malvina.
This edition connects four female writers from two different
countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most
popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of
them.
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and
Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women
writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary
feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de
Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and fiction, public and
private, Marijn S. Kaplan provides new evidence supporting both the
novel's autobiography theory and de Maillebois hypothesis. Kaplan
then traces how Riccoboni progressively develops a proto-feminist
poetics of voice in her epistolary fiction, empowering women to
resist patriarchal efforts to silence and appropriate them, which
culminates in her final novel Lettres de Milord Rivers (1777). In
nineteen relatively unknown letters (included, with translations)
written over three decades to her publisher Humblot, several
editors, Diderot, Laclos, Philip Thicknesse etc., Riccoboni is
shown similarly to defend her oeuvre, her reputation, and her
authority as a woman (writer), refusing to be manipulated and
silenced by men.
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