A mother's love : crafting feminine virtue in Enlightenment France / Lesley H. Walker.
A mother's love : crafting feminine virtue in Enlightenment France / Lesley H. Walker.
A mother's love : crafting feminine virtue in Enlightenment France / Lesley H. Walker.
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Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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N306.8743/ 128
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English
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251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Rethinking Domesticity in Eighteenth-century France -- 2. The Diligent Mother -- 3. When Girls Read Rousseau or a Rake's Progress -- 4. The Erotics of Motherhood -- 5. The Good Mother or the Sex Born to Suffer -- 6. Nostalgia and Maternal Loss.
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Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2008.
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"A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France chronicles the emergence of an idealized mother figure whose reforming zeal sought to make French society more just. Lesley H. Walker contends that this attempt during the eighteenth century to "rewrite" social relations in terms of greater social equality represents an important bu...
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A mother's love : crafting feminine virtue in Enlightenment France / Lesley H. Walker.
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The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-238) and index.
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c2008.
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N306.8743/ 128
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74VMQZJOjwoX
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9780838756850 (alk. paper)
0838756859 (alk. paper)
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306.8743094409033
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991000343849702626
