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Title: Femmes savantes et femmes d'esprit

Femmes savantes et femmes d'esprit

Women Intellectuals of the French Eighteenth Century

by Roland G. Bonnel (Volume editor) Catherine Rubinger (Volume editor)
©1995 Others XIII, 450 Pages
Romance Studies
Series: Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History, Volume 1

Summary

In eighteenth-century France, there were numerous women thinkers and writers, whose contributions to society and to intellectual life were rarely acknowledged either by their contemporaries or in successive generations. This book aims at evaluating their involvement in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century France as novelists, épistolières, moralists, philosophers, journalists, painters, dramatists, and salonières.

Details

Pages
XIII, 450
Year
1995
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820439372
Language
English
Keywords
Enlightment Women thinker Novelist Épistolière Salonière
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1994. XIII, 450 pp.

Biographical notes

Roland G. Bonnel (Volume editor) Catherine Rubinger (Volume editor)

The Editors: Roland Bonnel was educated in France and Great Britain. He presently teaches Eighteenth-Century French Literature at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Catherine Rubinger was educated in Great Britain and Canada. She presently teaches French and Women Studies at Mont Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada. The contributors: Alain Nabarra, Shirley Jones-Day, Marie-Laure Girou-Swiderski, Judith Curtis, Alix Deguise, Marie-France Silver, Ruth Plaut-Weinreb, Rosena Davison, Jean-Noel Pascal, Isabelle Vissiere, Leonore Loft, Nicole Treves, Mary Trouille, Muriel Usandivaras, Gita May, Catherine Cusset, Catherine Rubinger

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