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Author : C. P. Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen) written by C. P. Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. D. van Strien
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042916463
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Isabelle de Charriere (Belle de Zuylen) written by C. D. van Strien and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of patient research in eighteenth-century family archives. Particularly those of Belle de Zuylen's contemporaries likely to have met her. Just over twenty years after the publication of her Oeuvres completes and the subsequent biographies by Pierre and Simone Dubois and Cecil P. Courtney, this book offers much new material and places her early work in the context of that of her friends. Being in touch with other people was essential for Belle de Zuylen, whose correspondence now also includes two letters when she was seventeen and desperately in love. Among the new poems there is a fable written after a quarrel with friends, whose views on the matter are also published. Another important poem is Belle's long and witty 'epistle' in answer to complimentary verses by the editor of the journal that printed her story Le Noble. One of the many reactions by friends to this partly autobiographical tale in which Julie d'Arnonville elopes with a man her father does not approve of, came from an offended 'marquis d'Arnonville', who enclosed a lengthy comment on the story. Most of the material was found among the papers of Baron Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek, a colleague of Belle's father in the provincial administration. From his letters and memorandums it appears that for many years he was in love with Belle. When he finally asked her to marry him, she had already decided to leave Holland, where she had long known she would never be happy.
Author : Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen) written by Cecil Patrick Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle de Charrière, formerly best known for her friendship with James Boswell and Benjamin Constant, is now recognised as one of the most fascinating literary figures of her time, a brilliant letter-writer and gifted novelist. Cecil Courney's biography chronicles her life in a lively, comprehensive and scholarly fashion and makes full use of the original sources, notably Belle's extensive correspondence with many of the leading figures of her time. Part one covers the first thirty years of Belle de Zuylen's life from her birth in 1740 into the sheltered, leisurely and elegant milieu of an old-established Dutch aristocratic family. Her early intellectual development leads her to challenge accepted ideas and to explore in writing realms of experience undreamt of in the philosophy of the convention-ridden society in which she lives. Moving through her correspondence with Constant d'Hermenches and Boswell and the story of her many suitors, the account of this period ends in her late and unremarkable marriage (1771) to her brother's former tutor, Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière. The second part is devoted to Belle's life after her marriage. She takes up residence at Le Pontet, the Charrière family home near Neuchâtel, travels in Switzerland and Holland, forms a mysterious romantic attachment to a young man who later abandons her and, after a period spent in Paris (1786-1787), resolves never to set foot again outside Le Pontet. It is here that Belle creates a haven for intellectual activity, whose members, including the young Benjamin Constant, are brought intensely to life in her inimitable correspondence and in this thoughtful and sympathetic portrait of one of the most engaging figures of the eighteenth century.
Author : Isabelle de Charriere
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101577274
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Nobleman and Other Romances written by Isabelle de Charriere and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only available English translation of writings by an Enlightenment-era Dutch aristocrat, writer, composer-and woman. Born Dutch, noble, and free-spirited, Isabelle de Charrière (also known as Belle de Zuylen) was an enlightened woman whose writings-not unlike Jane Austen's-tackled the intricacies of high society, particularly in matters of love. Published when she was only twenty- two, "The Nobleman" is aPersuasion-like tale whose heroine challenges her stodgy father in order to marry a man of unassuming ancestry. But Charrière did not confine herself to simple marriage plots and country courtships. Another story, "Eagonlette and Suggestina," is a thinly veiled critique of Marie Antoinette, cleverly disguised as a fairy tale. The Nobleman and Other Romances will delight fans of Jane Austen and Enlightenment-era French literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Monique Moser-Verrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789076912578
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Isabelle de Charrière and the novel in the 18th century written by Monique Moser-Verrey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabelle de Charriere
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264274
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book There Are No Letters Like Yours written by Isabelle de Charriere and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters between a young Dutch woman and a Swiss soldier
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004501428
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suisse romande depuis son mariage, mais ayant passé la première moitié de sa vie aux Pays-Bas où le français était devenu très tôt sa langue « naturelle », Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière joue quelque peu les trublions dans nos habitudes académiques. Lire son œuvre – ses lettres, ses romans, ses pamphlets et ses pièces de théâtre – c’est accepter des retouches à notre tableau des Lumières qui n’en ressortira pas indemne ; c’est revoir les limites du champ de la critique littéraire, structuré et hiérarchisé depuis le XIXe siècle en fonction de littératures « nationales ». Bilingue (français et anglais), ce recueil contient des articles basés sur les contributions à un colloque international qui s’est tenu à l’Université d’Utrecht en avril 2005 pour commémorer le bicentenaire de la mort de l’écrivaine. As a Dutch woman who spent half her life in Switzerland and chose French as her writing language, Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière parades a defiant attitude towards the constraints of the literary field. To read with care her letters, her novels, pamphlets and plays means accepting some modifications to our picture of the Enlightenment, and obliges us to question the limits of the field of literary criticism such as it has been structured since the nineteenth century, that is, along the lines of national canons. This bilingual volume (English and French) contains articles based on contributions to the international congress that was organized at Utrecht University in April 2005 on the occasion of the bicentennial of the author’s death.
Author : Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042019980
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière written by Suzanna van Dijk and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Author : Jelka Samsom
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039101870
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière written by Jelka Samsom and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels published by Isabelle de Charrière before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian psychoanalysis of the neurologist and psychiatrist Heinz Kohut (1913-81) is used in this study as a means of developing an awareness of the position of the fictional characters. Feminist and Freudian readings of Charrière's novels of the 1780s have stressed the 'closed' deterministic atmosphere of contemporary society; this new study emphasises what can be called the 'modern' side of the novels: patriarchal society and individual needs confront each other and allow the relationships to be seen in a new light. By means of Kohut's notion of 'selfobject' a rich insight is gained into the complex relationships described by Isabelle de Charrière.
Author : Jacqueline Letzter
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042002906
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Intellectual Tacking written by Jacqueline Letzter and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle de Charrière (Belle van Zuylen) has been known primarily as a novelist who experimented with narrative techniques to express her concern about the oppression of women in her society. Most scholarship has focused on only a small part of her work, her pre-revolutionary novels. This is one of the first synthetic studies of Charrière's entire oeuvre, and it turns its attention to Charrière's overlooked contribution as an intellectual in the eighteenth-century debate over education. In addition, Letzter analyzes the rhetorical and discursive strategies Charrière employed to insert herself in this debate; a debate from which she was excluded because she was a woman and she was not French. Letzter's model for this analysis is the rhetorical figure of tacking, a nautical term used by Charrière herself in order to describe her tactics for intellectual engagement within the gendered environment the gendered environment of revolutionary debate. Letzter demonstrates Charrière's contribution as an important intellectual of the Revolution and of the post-revolutionary period, whose significance resided in her ability to express her ambivalence toward the theories and ideologies that ceaselessly imposed themselves on women.
Author : Isabelle de Charrière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Madame de Charrière written by Isabelle de Charrière and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher : Helen Marx Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885983190
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Portrait of Zélide written by Geoffrey Scott and published by Helen Marx Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starred review in P.W. for this Bloomsbury-era biography of Isabella "Zelide" Van Tuyll.
Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Portrait of Zélide written by Geoffrey Scott and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of Isabelle de Charriere, writer and friend of Benjamin Constant.
Author : Jenene J. Allison
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135664
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Revealing Difference written by Jenene J. Allison and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
Author : Colin Jones CBE
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191024848
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Smile Revolution written by Colin Jones CBE and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite literally frowned upon. Individuals were fatalistic about tooth loss, and their open mouths would often have been visually repulsive. Rules of conduct dating back to Antiquity disapproved of the opening of the mouth to express feelings in most social situations. Open and unrestrained smiling was associated with the impolite lower orders. In late eighteenth-century Paris, however, these age-old conventions changed, reflecting broader transformations in the way people expressed their feelings. This allowed the emergence of the modern smile par excellence: the open-mouthed smile which, while highlighting physical beauty and expressing individual identity, revealed white teeth. It was a transformation linked to changing patterns of politeness, new ideals of sensibility, shifts in styles of self-presentation - and, not least, the emergence of scientific dentistry. These changes seemed to usher in a revolution, a revolution in smiling. Yet if the French revolutionaries initially went about their business with a smile on their faces, the Reign of Terror soon wiped it off. Only in the twentieth century would the white-tooth smile re-emerge as an accepted model of self-presentation. In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry, to tell a unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of western civilization.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527451
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Women Writing Intimate Spaces written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The messy and multi-layered issue of intimacy in connection with transnationality and spatiality is the topic of this volume on women’s writing in the long nineteenth century. A series of intimacies are dealt with through case studies from a wide range of countries situated on the European fringes. Within the field of feminist literary studies, the volume thus differs from other publications with a narrower scope, such as Western Europe or specific regions. More broadly, the chapters in this volume offer a variety of approaches to intimacy and generous bibliographical references for researchers in humanities and cultural studies.
Author : Isabelle de Charrière
Publisher : MLA Texts and Translations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Women written by Isabelle de Charrière and published by MLA Texts and Translations. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the French Revolution, three women who have fled France—the straitlaced aristocrat Emilie, her lighthearted maid Joséphine, and the worldly Constance—try to make new lives for themselves in Altendorf, Germany. Their experiences, difficulties, and choices address the philosophical question, Are moral theories adequate guides to good conduct? In her introduction to this late-eighteenth-century novel by Charrière, Emma Rooksby discusses the sentimental tradition, Enlightenment ideas, epistolary fiction, Charrière's career, and the difficult situation of women and women writers in postrevolutionary France.
