num_pages: 250
description: In 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau began to correspond with an anonymous women who claimed to be the protagonist of his recently published epistolary novel. Over 15 years, they exchanged 175 letters, which De La Tour turned into a manuscript as early as 1770, but because of his objection, the manuscript was not published until 1803, years after both had died. McAlpin (French, U. of Tennessee) argues that de La Tour constructed herself as an author and deliberately sought public face as a women writer of private letters. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Gender, Authenticity, And the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France: Marie-anne De La Tour, Roussear's Real-life Julie
titlecomplete: Gender, Authenticity, And the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France: Marie-anne De La Tour, Roussear's Real-life Julie
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Bucknell University Press