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Trois Femmes: Nouvelle de L'Abbe de La Tour (Texts & Translations) (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

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9780873529402: Trois Femmes: Nouvelle de L'Abbe de La Tour (Texts & Translations) (MLA Texts and Translations)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0873529405 ISBN 13: 9780873529402
Publisher: Modern Language Association, 2007

Synopsis

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, three women who have fled France―the straitlaced aristocrat Emilie, her lighthearted maid Joséphine, and the worldly Constance―try to make new lives for themselves in Altendorf, Germany. Their experiences, difficulties, and choices address the philosophical question, Are moral theories adequate guides to good conduct?

In her introduction to this late-eighteenth-century novel by Charrière, Emma Rooksby discusses the sentimental tradition, Enlightenment ideas, epistolary fiction, Charrière's career, and the difficult situation of women and women writers in postrevolutionary France.

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About the Authors

Isabelle de Charrière, born in 1740 to a Dutch aristocratic family, wrote several novels critical of rigid social conventions. She lived most of her life in Switzerland.



Emma Rooksby has a Doctorate of Philosphy from Murdoch University.

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Publisher
Modern Language Association
Publication date
2007
Language
French
ISBN 10 
0873529405
ISBN 13 
9780873529402
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
206