Conduct books for girls in enlightenment France /

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Author / Creator:	Berenguier, Nadine.
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Description:	x, 283 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
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. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8384263

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ISBN:	9780754668756 (hardback : alk. paper) 0754668754 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780754695431 0754695433
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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

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