"Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757),...

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Main Author:	Kaplan, Marijn S. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Routledge 2020
Series:	Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
Subjects:	Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières / 1713-1792 / Criticism and interpretation Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières / 1713-1792 / Correspondence Feminism in literature Women in literature Feminism and literature / France / History / 18th century
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	"Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Epistolary Feminism: Fact, Fiction, and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her "epistolary feminism". Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), between fact and fiction, public and private, Marijn S. Kaplan provides new evidence supporting both the novel's autobiography theory and de Maillebois hypothesis. Kaplan then traces how Riccoboni progressively develops a proto-feminist poetics of voice in her epistolary fiction, empowering women to resist patriarchal efforts to silence and appropriate them, which culminates in her final novel Lettres de Milord Rivers (1777). In nineteen relatively unknown letters (included, with translations) written over three decades to her publisher Humblot, several editors, Diderot, Laclos, Philip Thicknesse etc., Riccoboni is shown similarly to defend her oeuvre, her reputation, and her authority as a woman (writer), refusing to be manipulated and silenced by men."--
Item Description:	Includes transcriptions of 19 letters (both the French originals and English translations) discussed in the book and written by Riccoboni between 1757 and 1786 to de Maillebois, Diderot, his son-in-law de Vandeul, Antonio Carara, Laclos, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, journal editors Louis de Boissy, Pierre Antoine de la Place, and Jean François de Bastide, her publisher Denis Humblot, Philip Thicknesse and David Garrick
Physical Description:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9781003047803 1003047807 9781000070736 1000070735 9781000071726 1000071723 9781000071214 1000071219