Intellectual Tacking

Questions of Education in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0290-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Isabelle de Charrière (Belle van Zuylen) has been known primarily as a novelist who experimented with narrative techniques to express her concern about the oppression of women in her society. Most scholarship has focused on only a small part of her work, her pre-revolutionary novels. This is one of the first synthetic studies of Charrière's entire œuvre, and it turns its attention to Charrière's overlooked contribution as an intellectual in the eighteenth-century debate over education. In addition, Letzter analyzes the rhetorical and discursive strategies Charrière employed to insert herself in this debate; a debate from which she was excluded because she was a woman and she was not French. Letzter's model for this analysis is the rhetorical figure of tacking, a nautical term used by Charrière herself in order to describe her tactics for intellectual engagement within the gendered environment the gendered environment of revolutionary debate. Letzter demonstrates Charrière's contribution as an important intellectual of the Revolution and of the post-revolutionary period, whose significance resided in her ability to express her ambivalence toward the theories and ideologies that ceaselessly imposed themselves on women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letzter, Jacqueline

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Systems of Education. PART ONE: The Pre-Revolutionary Years. (1765-1788). Lettres neuchâteloises. Lettres de Mistriss Henley, publiées par son amie. (1784) Lettres écrites de Lausanne (1784). Comment la nommera-t-on? (1785) and Caliste (1788). PART TWO: The Revolutionary Years. Political Pamphlets and Epigrams. Observations & conjectures politiques (1788). Lettres d'un évêque français à la nation (1789-1794). Epigrammes de la mouche du coche (1788). Lettres d'un Anglois à un député de l'Assemblée nationale de France (1789). Lettres trouvées dans la neige (1789). Political contes. Bien-Né (1788). Aiglonette et Insinuante, ou la souplesse (1791). Aventures de Frénet (1791). Revolutionary Novels. Henriette et Richard (1792). Lettres trouvées dans des porte-feuilles d'émigrés (1793). Revolutionary Theater. Elise ou l'université (1793). PART THREE: The Aftermath of the Revolution (1795-1805). L'Abbé de la Tour ou recueil de nouvelles (1799). Trois femmes. Honorine d'Userche, ou le danger des systémes. De l'esprit et des rois. Trois dialogues. Sainte Anne. Les Ruines de Yedburg. Sir Walter Finch et son fils William (1806). Epilogue: Real-Life Educations. Bibliography. Index.