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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791483398
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Through the Reading GlassDDC classification:
  • 028/.9/0820944
LOC classification:
  • PQ265 -- .D523 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- THROUGH THE READING GLASS -- 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 READINGS: 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 IN THE FAIRY TALE: GABRIELLE-SUZANNE BARBOT DEVILLENEUVE, 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.
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Intro -- THROUGH THE READING GLASS -- 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 READINGS: 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 IN THE FAIRY TALE: GABRIELLE-SUZANNE BARBOT DEVILLENEUVE, 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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

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