Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Régime France

by Julia V. Douthwaite

Overview

Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.

The author contends that their experience resonates with larger cultural beliefs about exotic and primitive peoples in ancien régime France and illuminates some of the blind spots in Enlightenment thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812213577
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Series:	New Cultural Studies
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late 17th and 18th centuries. The heroines of her study are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own and forced into the margins of a new society. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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