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100 1 $aBostic, Heidi.
245 14 $aThe fiction of enlightenment :$bwomen of reason in the French eighteenth century /$cHeidi Bostic.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press,$cc2010.
300 $a270 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-259) and index.
520 1 $a"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 Charrière. 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."--Jacket.
505 0 $aWomen, enlightenment, and the Salic law of reason -- Reason, gender, and masquerade in Françoise de Graffigny's "La Réunion du bon sens et de l'esprit" and Phaza -- Reason as remedy: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's L'Abeille, Histoire du marquis de Cressy, and Lettres de Mylord Rivers -- Reading reason: Isabelle de Charrière's Portrait de Zélide, Élise ou l'université, and "Des Auteurs et des livres."
650 0 $aFrench fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFrench fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aReason in literature.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWomen$zFrance$xIntellectual life$y18th century.
650 0 $aEnlightenment$zFrance.
600 10 $aGrafigny,$cMme de$q(Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt),$d1695-1758$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aRiccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières,$d1713-1792$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aCharrière, Isabelle de,$d1740-1805$xCriticism and interpretation.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBostic, Heidi.$tFiction of enlightenment.$dNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2010$w(OCoLC)742493662
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