19th-century French literature
adultery
arranged marriage
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enlightenment liberalism
epistolary literature
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female sexuality
forbidden love
French sentimentalism
industrial revolution
infidelity
Loire Valley
nineteenth-century women's writing
novels about adultery
realism
sentimental fiction
Sophia Cottin
women's writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780873529259
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire and Frédéric gradually develops into a forbidden passion.
Claire d'Albe (1799) was audacious in its day for its representation of adulterous love as a positive act of self-fulfillment. As the volume editor, Margaret Cohen, indicates, Sophie Cottin's best-selling work of sentimentalism highlights the tension in Enlightenment liberalism between collective welfare and personal happiness. Although such later French authors as Stendhal and Balzac denigrated sentimentalism along with female novelists, Claire d'Albe influenced their realist aesthetics.
Claire d'Albe (1799) was audacious in its day for its representation of adulterous love as a positive act of self-fulfillment. As the volume editor, Margaret Cohen, indicates, Sophie Cottin's best-selling work of sentimentalism highlights the tension in Enlightenment liberalism between collective welfare and personal happiness. Although such later French authors as Stendhal and Balzac denigrated sentimentalism along with female novelists, Claire d'Albe influenced their realist aesthetics.
