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"This book argues that women authors of the French eighteenth century claimed reason and contributed to Enlightenment. It begins by framing the Enlightenment as fiction, in two senses: first, what passes under the name of Enlightenment in much current critical discourse is a fiction, or a caricatured construct; second, works of fiction can illuminate Enlightenment. The book offers fresh readings of texts by the three most prominent women among eighteenth-century writers in French: Francoise de G
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- Author
- Heidi Bostic; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press; UNKNO
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780874130744
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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