Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France
Subtitle: Strategies of Emancipation (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780815323679
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; Reference; Women In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Women and literature; Women Authors; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; French Literature; France; History and criticism; Women's rights in literature
First sentence: While "evangelical" devisants like Oisille or Parlamante endorse a Pauline view of marriage in which man must love his wife as Christ loves the Church, husbands in the Heptameron are far from ideal and wives are more than passive partners.