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Historic Studies in Vaud, Berne and Savoy from Roman Times to Voltaire, Rousseau, and Gibbon
Analyse : Le second tome constitue une vaste fresque de la vie intellectuelle vaudoise au siècle des Lumières et renferme de nombreux documents inédits.
Intellectual Tacking
Isabelle de Charrière (Belle van Zuylen) has been known primarily as a novelist who experimented with narrative techniques to express her concern about the oppression of women in her society. Most scholarship has focused on only a small part of her work, her pre-revolutionary novels. This is one of the first synthetic studies of Charrière's entire oeuvre, and it turns its attention to Charrière's overlooked contribution as an intellectual in the eighteenth-century debate over education. In addition, Letzter analyzes the rhetorical and discursive strategies Charrière employed to insert herself in this debate; a debate from which she was excluded because she was a woman and she was not Fre...
Lettres neuchâteloises
La publication des "lettres neuchâteloises, en 1784, fit scandale. Voilà un petit chef-d'oeuvre qui entrelace subtilement un roman d'amour de la bonne société et les mésaventures d'une fille du peuple venue se brûler à la ville.
Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière
The novels published by Isabelle de Charrière before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian psychoanalysis of the neurologist and psychiatrist Heinz Kohut (1913-81) is used in this study as a means of developing an awareness of the position of the fictional characters. Feminist and Freudian readings of Charrière's novels of the 1780s have stressed the 'closed' deterministic atmosphere of contemporary society; this new study emphasises what can be called the 'modern' side of the novels: patriarchal society and individual needs confront each other and allow the relationships to be seen in a new light. By means of Kohut's notion of 'selfobject' a rich insight is gained into the complex relationships described by Isabelle de Charrière.
