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Illusion and the Absent Other in Madame Riccoboni's Lettres De Mistriss Fanni Butlerd by Wendy Carvalho Doucette (Hardback, 1997)

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This is the first in-depth study of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's 1757 best-seller, the Lettres de mistriss Fanni Butlerd. In her feminist denunciation of male privilege and social injustice, Riccoboni's heroine emerges t as a passive victim, but as an aggressive correspondent intent on directing the course of her romance. This book examines Riccoboni's skillful manipulation of the spatial, psychological, and linguistic interplay between presence, absence, and illusion, the paradoxical presence of absence, and the pseudo-magical power of the epistolary medium to meld reality and illusion via linguistic incantation. The heroine's forced return to reality, the confrontation and rupture between the imaginary and the actual lover, and the vel's self-perpetuating closure result in a stunning psychological victory and a textual tour de force.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820433942
ISBN-13
9780820433943
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178034742

Product Key Features

Author
Wendy Carvalho Doucette
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Issn
1045-4497
Series Part/Volume Number
22
First Published
1997
Series Title
The Age of Revolution and Romanticism Interdisciplinary Studies
Author Biography
The Author: Wendy Carvalho Doucette, Ph.D., is an independent scholar. A graduate of Stanford University and Mount Holyoke College, she is currently researching archetypes of literary closure in novels by eighteenth-century French women writers.
Date of Publication
01/10/1997
Country of Publication
United States

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