Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France by Nadine Ber... - 9781032923260

Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment FranceAuthor(s): Nadine Berenguier\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032923260, 978-1032923260\nSynopsis\nDuring the eighteenth-century, at a time when secular and religious authors in France were questioning womens efforts to read, a new literary genre emerged: conduct books written specifically for girls and unmarried young women. In this carefully researched and thoughtfully argued book, Professor Nadine Brenguier shares an in-depth analysis of this development, relating the objectives and ideals of these books to the contemporaneous Enlightenment concerns about improving education in order to reform society. Works by Anne-Thrse de Lambert, Madeleine de Puisieux, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Louise d'Epinay, Barthlmy Graillard de Graville, Chevalier de Cerfvol, abb Joseph Reyre, Pierre-Louis Roederer, and Marie-Antoinette Lenoir take up a wide variety of topics an.