Conduct books for girls in enlightenment France
By: Nadine Bérenguier
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780754668756; 9780754695431
Subjects: Books and reading; Conduct of life; French literature; History and criticism; Girls; Girls in literature; Young women; Education; Young women in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Between oral and print cultures; title: Authorial anxieties; title: Perceptions of motherhood; title: Maneuvering new social spaces; title: Marriage and its disillusions; title: The cultural landscape of the eighteenth-century press; title: Anne-Thérèse de Lambert's Avis d'une mere a sa fille; title: Madeleine de Puisieux's Conseils a une amie; title: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's Magasin des adolescentes and instructions pour les jeunes dames; title: Louise D'Epinay's Conversations d'Emilie; title: Graillard, Cerfvol, and Reyre; title: Conduct books in early literary history; title: Editorial fortunes in the nineteenth century.