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Women Moralists in Early Modern France by Julie Candler Hayes is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women Moralists in Early Modern France about?

Julie Candler Hayes explores the contributions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French women philosophers and intellectuals to moralist writing, a genre focusing on dispassionate observations on the human condition and traditionally viewed through its best-known male writers. This study, the first of its kind, includes both famous thinkers--such as Émilie Du Châtelet and Germaine de Staël--and nearly two dozen of their contemporaries. Hayes demonstrates how, through their critique of instit

Who reads Women Moralists in Early Modern France?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Julie Candler Hayes
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
2024
Language
EN
ISBN
9780197688625
Category
literary studies
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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