1st Edition
Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact, Fiction, and Voice
Introduction
PART ONE: RICCOBONI’S FICTION
Chapter 1: Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757):
The Facts of Fiction and the Fiction of Facts
Chapter 2: Proto-Feminist Female Identity through Marginal Epistolarity:
From Lettres de Juliette Catesby (1759) to Histoire de Miss Jenny
(1764)
Chapter 3: Perfecting Epistolary Feminism:
From Lettres d’Adélaïde de Dammartin (1767) to Lettres de Sophie
de Vallière (1772)
Chapter 4: Culminating Epistolary Feminism:
Lettres de Mylord Rivers (1777)
Chapter 5: Epistolary Feminism Attacked in Translation:
Percival Stockdale’s Letters from Lord Rivers (1778)
PART TWO: RICCOBONI’S CORRESPONDENCE
Chapter 6: Epistolary Feminism and Letters
Chapter 7: Final Published Letters: Thicknesse (1780) and Laclos (1782)
Conclusion
Appendix
Biography
Marijn S. Kaplan is a Professor of French at the University of North Texas, where she also chairs the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published extensively on eighteenth-century French women writers—particularly Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Françoise de Graffigny, and Sophie Cottin—epistolary fiction, and correspondence.
"This thoughtful and intriguing work invites readers to re-examine Riccoboni’s epistolary novels in a new way, and to reconsider the role of her proto-feminism in her fiction as well as in her correspondence. The study provides a new and informative understanding of Riccoboni’s works for anyone studying or teaching her works." Jeanne Hageman (North Dakota State University) The French Review 95.1
