Trois femmes
Subtitle: nouvelle de l'abbé de La Tour
By: Isabelle de Charrière ; edited and introduced by Emma Rooksby.
Contributors: Rooksby, Emma.
Series: Texts and translations. Texts -- 21
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780873529402
Description: "In the aftermath of the French Revolution, three women who have fled France - the straitlaced aristocrat Emilie, her lighthearted maid Josephine, and the worldly Constance - try to make new lives for themselves in Altendorf, Germany. Their experiences, difficulties, and choices address the philosophical question, Are moral theories adequate guides to good conduct?" "In her introduction to this late-eighteenth-century novel by Charriere, Emma Rooksby discusses the sentimental tradition, Enlightenment ideas, epistolary fiction, Charriere's career, and the difficult situation of women and women writers in postrevolulionary France."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in French; introduction in English.