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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...

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Published in:Comparatist Vol. 45; pp. 324 - 347
Main Author: SOKOWSKI, SANDRA
Format: Article
Published: University of North Carolina Press Oct2021
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis
Cognitive psychology
Books
Human sexuality
Prejudices
Sexism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.