Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France

At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns ab

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I Textual Strategies: Between oral and print cultures; Authorial anxieties. Part II Topoi: Perceptions of motherhood; Maneuvering new social spaces; Marriage and its disillusions. Part III Reception: The cultural landscape of the18th-century press; Anne-Thérèse de Lambert's Avis d'une mère à sa fille; Madeleine de Puisieux’s Conseils à une amie; Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s Magasin des adolescentes and Instructions pour les jeunes dames; Louise d'Epinay's Conversations d'Emilie; Graillard, Cerfvol and Reyre; Conduct books in early literary history; Editorial fortunes in the 19th century; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nadine Berenguier has a Ph. D. from Stanford University and is Associate Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire, USA. She is the author of L'Infortune des alliances: contrat, mariage et fiction au dix-huitième siècle.

Summary

At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns ab

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Berenguier, Berenguier Nadine
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032923260
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92326-0
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism