Nadine Berenguier

Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

During the eighteenth-century, at a time when secular and religious authors in France were questioning women's efforts to read, a new literary genre emerged: conduct books written specifically for girls and unmarried young women. In this carefully researched and thoughtfully argued book, Professor Nadine Bérenguier shares an in-depth analysis of this development, relating the objectives and ideals of these books to the contemporaneous Enlightenment concerns about improving education in order to reform society. Works by Anne-Thérèse de Lambert, Madeleine de Puisieux, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Louise d'Epinay, Barthélémy Graillard de Graville, Chevalier de Cerfvol, abbé Joseph Reyre, Pierre-Louis Roederer, and Marie-Antoinette Lenoir take up a wide variety of topics and vary dramatically in tone. But they all share similar objectives: acquainting their young female readers with the moral and social rules of the world and ensuring their success at the next stage of their lives. While the authors regarded their texts as furthering the common good, they were also aware that they were likely to be controversial among those responsible for girls' education. Bérenguier's sensitive readings highlight these tensions, as she offers readers a rare view of how conduct books were conceived, consumed, re-edited, memorialized, and sometimes forgotten. In the broadest sense, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317162308
• Artikelnr.: 45099797

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.