Sexual Education as Enlightenment in Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd à Mylord Charles Alfred and Histoire du Marquis de Cressy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11864129 |
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| Authors | Heidi Bostic (0000-0002-4378-2757, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-44 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women in French studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-825X • E-ISSN: 2166-5486 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wfs.2004.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2339616849 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's first two novels as testimonials in favor of an expanded understanding of Enlightenment that is broad enough to address women's experiences and contributions within both the social world and the intellectual project of eighteenth-century France. The trope of sexual education as Enlightenment serves as a lens through which to read the novels. On the surface, these two works would seem to be simply commentaries on failed love affairs and condemnations of male deception. On a deeper level, however, they offer insight into the gender coding of the Enlightenment. The novels show that, for women, there are two possible contradictory outcomes of sexual education as Enlightenment: maturity or death. The novels serve to educate readers about both possibilities
Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Literature · Sociology · Theology · Trope (literature · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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