Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women: From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138879515)

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame, to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.

Author: Colette H. Winn
ISBN-10: 1138879517
ISBN-13: 9781138879515
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2017
Format: Paperback