Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction

by April Alliston

Book Overview

This study focuses on fiction written by women in the eighteenth century to demonstrate how authors of the period implicitly examined and resisted patrilineal models of relationship, including the notions of literary tradition and of women's place in the family and the domestic sphere. The author's analysis of fiction from Lafayette to Austen argues that the concept of "correspondence," as exemplified in epistolary fiction, leads to a deeper understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726604
• ISBN13: 9780804726603
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"