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Illusion and the Absent Other in Madame Riccoboni's "Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd"
This is the first in-depth study of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's 1757 best-seller, the Lettres de mistriss Fanni Butlerd. In her feminist denunciation of male privilege and social injustice, Riccoboni's heroine emerges not as a passive victim, but as an aggressive correspondent intent on directing the course of her romance. This book examines Riccoboni's skillful manipulation of the spatial, psychological, and linguistic interplay between presence, absence, and illusion, the paradoxical presence of absence, and the pseudo-magical power of the epistolary medium to meld reality and illusion via linguistic incantation. The heroine's forced return to reality, the confrontation and rupture between the imaginary and the actual lover, and the novel's self-perpetuating closure result in a stunning psychological victory and a textual tour de force.
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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism
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.
Destins de femmes
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, p...
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Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime
Sur les traces de l’interlocuteur absent, Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime analyse les modes de présence de personnages réduits au silence. L’organisation à sens unique des romans par lettres à une voix repose sur une structure dialogique au sein de laquelle des indices explicites et implicites permettent de entrevoir le discours du destinataire et même d’en esquisser un portrait. Dans cet ouvrage, Isabelle Tremblay propose l’étude des conditions de visibilité de cet épistolier simulacre qui, bien qu’en partie virtuel, voire spectral, se conçoit comme un personnage à part entière. Tracing the path of the absent interlocutor, Les Fantômes du roman épistolaire d’Ancien Régime demonstrates that the apparent one-sided structure of the monophonic epistolary novels is in fact a uniquely crafted dialogical structure founded on explicit and implicit references to the seemingly silent and absent writer. Through an analysis of both direct and indirect references to what can be considered the ghostly writer, Isabelle Tremblay reconstructs his virtual presence, thereby revealing him as a full-fledged character.
Becoming Bourgeois
Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Revisiting complex issues of bourgeois class formation from the perspective of the interior lives of families, Christopher H. Johnson argues that the most durable and socially advantageous links forging bourgeois ascent were those of kinship. Economic success, though certainly derived from the virtues of hard work and intelligent management, was always underpinned by marriage strategies a...
