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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
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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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