Trois Femmes
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18th-century literature
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Dutch women writers
epistolary fiction
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sentimental narrative
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- ISBN 9780873529402
- Weight: 266g
- Dimensions: 144 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2007
- Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the aftermath of the French Revolution, three women who have fled France—the straitlaced aristocrat Emilie, her lighthearted maid Joséphine, 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 Charrière, Emma Rooksby discusses the sentimental tradition, Enlightenment ideas, epistolary fiction, Charrière's career, and the difficult situation of women and women writers in postrevolutionary France.
