Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient R馮ime France (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812213577)

Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.

The author contends that their experience resonates with larger cultural beliefs about exotic and primitive peoples in ancien r馮ime France and illuminates some of the blind spots in Enlightenment thought.

Author: Julia V. Douthwaite
ISBN-10: 0812213572
ISBN-13: 9780812213577
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1992
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d