Disciplining Desire and the Problems of Authorship in Denis Diderot's The Nun and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman.
The article discusses that in both experimental texts that bridge the epistolary and realist novelistic traditions, Denis Diderot in The Nun, and Mary Wollstonecraft in Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman, construct fictional female characters, imprisoned because of the prejudices against their sex, who...
| Publicado en: | Comparatist Vol. 45; pp. 324 - 347 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Oct2021
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| Sumario: | The article discusses that in both experimental texts that bridge the epistolary and realist novelistic traditions, Denis Diderot in The Nun, and Mary Wollstonecraft in Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman, construct fictional female characters, imprisoned because of the prejudices against their sex, who attempt to use their writing as a means to liberation. |
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