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Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-Century France
Mary McAlpin
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Hardback. Examines the authorial consciousness in the 15-year correspondence between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his fan, Marie-Anne de La Tour. This book also looks at the issues raised by De La Tour's project of creating a publishable "private" correspondence with a famous author. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 821.
This study examines authorial consciousness in the fifteen-year correspondence between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his most devoted fan, Marie-Anne de La Tour, who claimed to incarnate his heroine Julie of ""La Nouvelle Heloise"". Far from the starry-eyed obsessive she is now assumed to have been, de La Tour was a woman writer eager for fame who pursued her goal of becoming an ""author"" through the vehicle of a private correspondence with a celebrity. In the eighteenth century, with the vogue for publishing the private in full force, missive letters were accorded great esthetic and publication value. Suspicion of intent to publish ... Read more
This study examines authorial consciousness in the fifteen-year correspondence between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his most devoted fan, Marie-Anne de La Tour, who claimed to incarnate his heroine Julie of ""La Nouvelle Heloise"". Far from the starry-eyed obsessive she is now assumed to have been, de La Tour was a woman writer eager for fame who pursued her goal of becoming an ""author"" through the vehicle of a private correspondence with a celebrity. In the eighteenth century, with the vogue for publishing the private in full force, missive letters were accorded great esthetic and publication value. Suspicion of intent to publish ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9780838756522
SKU
V9780838756522
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