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  1. Forensic storytelling and the literary roots of early modern feminism
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    Author: Abrams, Barbara Lise
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "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... more

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    "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"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429001147; 0429001142; 9780429672835; 0429672837; 9780429669859; 0429669852; 9780429671340; 0429671342
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    Series: Routledge focus on literature
    Subjects: French letters; French prose literature; French prose literature; Authors, French; Women authors, French; French literature; Women and literature; Letter writing, French; Feminism; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 161 pages), illustrations
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  2. Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism
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    Author: Abrams, Barbara
    Published: 2023; ©2018
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Forensic Storytelling and Antimonarchical Epistolarity -- Women, Equality,... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Forensic Storytelling and Antimonarchical Epistolarity -- Women, Equality, Liberty: Private Lives and Public Spheres, 1715-1815 -- Notes -- References -- 2 Les Causes Célèbres, Factum Or Fiction? Or: "That's What He Said!" -- Factum and Mémoire: The Role of Letters and Evidence -- Case Studies Within the Causes Célèbres -- Popular Case Studies -- Notes -- References -- 3 Tanastès Est Satan: Authenticity and Audacity in the Writings of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon -- Epistolary Style, Oral Tradition, the Development of the Novel and Other Forms of Women's Writing in Eighteenth-Century France -- Bonafon and the "Affaire Bonafon" -- The Publication and Subsequent Legal Process -- Social Media and Police Discovery of Tanastès: Bonafon Arrested -- Précis of the Novel -- Intertextuality and Theatricality -- Antimonarchical Epistolarity: The Letters and the Problematics -- Literary Production and Notes From Bonafon to M. Duval, Secretary of Police -- Strategy and Networking in Bonafon's Letters -- Notes -- References -- 4 Excess Or Success?: The Case of Mme Geneviève De Gravelle -- Notes -- References -- 5 "What's in a Name?": The Case of Angélique Schwab -- A Brief History of the Jews in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- Jewish Community Network and Names of the Connected Families -- Abraham Schwab -- Glucka-Angélique -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Note -- Index.

     
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