Conduct books for girls in enlightenment France /

Conduct books for girls in enlightenment France /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Berenguier, Nadine.
Imprint:	Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Girls in literature. Young women in literature. Girls -- Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century. Young women -- Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century. Girls -- Education -- France -- History -- 18th century. Young women -- Education -- France -- History -- 18th century. Girls -- France -- Conduct of life -- History -- 18th century. Young women -- France -- Conduct of life -- History -- 18th century. French literature. Girls -- Books and reading. Girls -- Conduct of life. Girls -- Education. Girls in literature. Young women -- Books and reading. Young women -- Conduct of life. Young women -- Education. Young women in literature. France. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300597

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ISBN:	9780754695431 0754695433 0754668754 9780754668756 9780754668756 1317162315 9781317162315 1317162307 9781317162308 1283089599 9781283089593 9786613089595 6613089591
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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 about improving education in order to reform society. Her study contributes to our understanding of how print culture in eighteenth-century France gave shape to a specific social subset of new readers: modern girls.
Other form:	Print version: Berenguier, Nadine. Conduct books for girls in enlightenment France. Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011

Table of Contents:

Between oral and print cultures
Authorial anxieties
Perceptions of motherhood
Maneuvering new social spaces
Marriage and its disillusions
The landscape of eighteenth-century literary journals
Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
Madeleine de Puisieux
Marie-Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont
Louise D'Epinay
Graillard, Cerfvol, Reyre
Conduct books in early literary history
Editorial fortunes in the nineteenth century.