Description
The form of writing treated in this study serves as a basis for a reappraisal and critique of previously held ideas about women’s agency in eighteenth-century France. The book maps the files of legal briefs, making available photos, transliterations, and translations of selected authentic materials for the archives of the Bastille, in Paris, France. The varied contents of these legal briefs include, memoires, letters, citations from officials and even from the king. Notably, the files provide testimony to women’s attempts to free themselves from conditions imposed on them by patriarchal authority, while expanding our definition of literary genre and the contributions of women to the evolution of literary, intellectual, and political culture from the eighteenth century and forward.
Book Information
ISBN 9780367029173
Author Barbara Abrams
Format Hardback
Page Count 162
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
