Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment

by Suellen Diaconoff

Overview

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791464212
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	04/28/2005
Series:	SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Suellen Diaconoff is Professor of French at Colby College. She is the author of Eros and Power in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”: A Study in Evil.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue

1. Female Readers and l'espace du livre: A Quiet Revolution

2. Autobiography and Rereading
Manon Roland, 1754—1793

3. The Romance as Transformative Reading
Félicité de Genlis, 1746—1830

4. The Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Reading
Isabelle de Charrière, 1740—1805

5. Reading Rape in the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century
Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, 1713—1792

6. Books, Sex, and Reading the Fairy Tale
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, 1685—1755
Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont, 1711—1780

7. The Periodical Print Press for Women: An Enlightenment Forum for Females

Conclusion: The "Other" Revolution

Notes

Bibliography