ISBN-13: 9780812213577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str.
Exotic Women Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Regime France Julia V. Douthwaite Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society. The author contends that their experience resonates with larger cultural beliefs about exotic and primitive peoples in ancien regime France and illuminates some of the blind spots in Enlightenment thought. New Cultural Studies 1992 224 pages 6 x 9 17 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1357-7 Paper $26.50s 17.50 World Rights Literature
Exotic WomenLiterary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Régime FranceJulia V. DouthwaiteJulia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.The author contends that their experience resonates with larger cultural beliefs about exotic and primitive peoples in ancien régime France and illuminates some of the blind spots in Enlightenment thought.New Cultural Studies1992 | 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus.ISBN 978-0-8122-1357-7 | Paper | $26.50s | L17.50 World Rights | Literature