Moral Cupidity And Lettres De Cachet In Diderot S Writing

Author : JENNIFER. VANDERHEYDEN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Detention of persons in literature
ISBN : 1032094036

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Moral Cupidity and Lettres de Cachet in Diderot's Writing by JENNIFER. VANDERHEYDEN Pdf

This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot's personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot's experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le Père de famille, Jacques le fataliste and Est-il bon? Est-il méchant?. A scrutiny of Diderot's mémoire/lettre novel La Religieuse proposes that, on the basis of moral cupidity, or self-gain, Madame Simonin sends her daughter Suzanne two veiled lettres de cachet that demand her confinement to a convent. The exploration of a fascinating real-life case of Henriette-Émilie de Bautru, a young comtesse whose mother confined her to a convent as a result of a lettre de cachet also based on motives of greed, leads to an examination of the similarities between Suzanne and the Comtesse in terms of their illegitimacy, questioning of authority and subsequent rebellion. A consideration of writing and communication in La Religieuse as they relate to this rebellion leads to an investigation of Diderot's admiration of the mystery of female genius and artistic creativity as discussed in his essay Sur les femmes. The works of Julia Kristeva, especially her Post-Scriptum addressed to Diderot at the end of her work Thérèse mon amour: Thérèse d'Avila, serve as a theoretical basis for an interpretation of Suzanne's experience as victim of a lettre de cachet and her search for a psychological rebirth of her être caché.

Author : Jennifer Vanderheyden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429614811

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Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot’s Writing by Jennifer Vanderheyden Pdf

This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le Père de famille, Jacques le fataliste and Est-il bon? Est-il méchant?. A scrutiny of Diderot’s mémoire/lettre novel La Religieuse proposes that, on the basis of moral cupidity, or self-gain, Madame Simonin sends her daughter Suzanne two veiled lettres de cachet that demand her confinement to a convent. The exploration of a fascinating real-life case of Henriette-Émilie de Bautru, a young comtesse whose mother confined her to a convent as a result of a lettre de cachet also based on motives of greed, leads to an examination of the similarities between Suzanne and the Comtesse in terms of their illegitimacy, questioning of authority and subsequent rebellion. A consideration of writing and communication in La Religieuse as they relate to this rebellion leads to an investigation of Diderot’s admiration of the mystery of female genius and artistic creativity as discussed in his essay Sur les femmes. The works of Julia Kristeva, especially her Post-Scriptum addressed to Diderot at the end of her work Thérèse mon amour: Thérèse d’Avila, serve as a theoretical basis for an interpretation of Suzanne’s experience as victim of a lettre de cachet and her search for a psychological rebirth of her être caché.

Author : Barbara Abrams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429671340

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Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism by Barbara Abrams Pdf

The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to convents, workhouses or prisons were in most respects deprived of agency, yet many found ways to respond to the legal documents served against them. The letters and associated materials preserved in their legal files provide evidence that these women did not remain quiet, as they found means to resist authority. The forensic storytelling examined in this book supports the conclusion that the documents written in these constrained circumstances have both historical and literary merit and form the core of an understudied genre of literature.

Author : Aleksondra Hultquist,Chris Mounsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000425604

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A Spy on Eliza Haywood by Aleksondra Hultquist,Chris Mounsey Pdf

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. Haywood’s importance in the development of the novel is now well-known. A Spy on Eliza Haywood links this with her work in the other genres in which she published at least one volume a year throughout her life, demonstrating how she contributed substantially to making women’s writing a locus of debate that had to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, as well as now by current scholars of political, moral, and social enquiries into the eighteenth century. Haywood’s work is essential to the study of eighteenth-century literature and this collection of essays continues the growing scholarship on this most important of women writers.

Author : Arnab Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000460162

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Narrating Cultural Encounter by Arnab Chatterjee Pdf

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse. Though British women enjoyed their privileged racial status as the utilisers of colonial riches, they articulated their voice of dissent when they faced the politics of subordination in their own society and identified them with the marginalised status of the colonised Indians. This brings out the complicity and critique of the colonial discourse of British women writers and foregrounds their ambivalent responses to the colonial project. This book provides detailed textual analysis of the works of Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Lady Morgan, Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay through critical insights from the idea of the Enlightenment, postcolonial theory and feminist thought. It also foregrounds new perspectives to colonial discourse vis-à-vis the representation of India by locating the dialogic strain within the British narratives about India.

Author : Kerri Andrews,Sue Edney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000518443

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Hannah More in Context by Kerri Andrews,Sue Edney Pdf

This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More’s reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

Author : Marijn S. Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000071726

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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism by Marijn S. Kaplan Pdf

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.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000264074

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Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne by A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin Pdf

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

Author : Arthur M. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diderot the Testing Years, 1713-1759 by Arthur M. Wilson Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986

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The Old Regime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520916638

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Private Lives and Public Affairs by Sarah Maza Pdf

From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011919250

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“The” French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine Pdf

Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980752486

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The Skeptic's Walk by Denis Diderot Pdf

This is a Divine Comedy or Pilgrim's Progress for the post-religious age. Finding himself on a quest through the forest of life towards the general rendez-vous at the end, our hero journeys first on the path of religion and faith, then the path of the philosophers where debate and ideas reign, and finally the path of worldly pursuits and pleasure. Along the way he dodges inquisitors, raging fanatics, insane philosophers, faithless lovers, and scheming social climbers. Truly a neglected classic. As Diderot said, "even if you are not amused, you may still benefit from it."This third edition was revised in 2018.

Author : Thomas McStay Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195364019

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Bureaucrats and Beggars by Thomas McStay Adams Pdf

In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study, Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these so-called dépôts de mendicité, as seen by critics of the experiment (including learned judges and influential spokesmen of the provincial Estates) and as seen by those responsible for its success: the provincial intendants, the royal engineers, the doctors, the inspectors, the contractors, and various givers of advice. He shows how the debate--both internal and external--over the operation of the dépôts contributed to the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. The resulting web of reasoning and empirical data gave support to Montesquieu's principle that the state owes every one of its citizens "a secure subsistence, suitable food and clothing, and a manner of life that is not contrary to good health."

Author : Dorian Bell
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810136908

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Globalizing Race by Dorian Bell Pdf

Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Morès to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France’s colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form—and that, conversely, antisemitism influenced the elaboration of the imperial project itself. Globalizing Race radiates from France to place authors like Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola into sustained relation with thinkers from across the ideological spectrum, including Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Engaging with what has been called the “spatial turn” in social theory, the book offers new tools for thinking about how racisms interact across space and time. Among these is what Bell calls racial scalarity. Race, Bell argues, did not just become globalized when European racism and antisemitism accompanied imperial penetration into the farthest reaches of the world. Rather, race became most thoroughly global as a method for constructing and negotiating the different scales (national, global, etc.) necessary for the development of imperial capitalism. As France, Europe, and the world confront a rising tide of Islamophobia, Globalizing Race also brings into fascinating focus how present-day French responses to Muslim antisemitism hark back to older, problematic modes of representing the European colonial periphery.