Les romans de Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni: variations sur le "texte de l'héroïne"

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  • Michèle Bissière The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni 's novels, published between 1757 and 1776, contain a number of emphases that differentiate them from feminocentric novels by eighteenth-century male writers. Some emphases are thematic: Riccoboni stresses the woman's active participation in the love affair, and she questions the binary oppositions conqueror/conquered, strong sex/weak sex. Other emphases contribute even more to undermining the "heroine's text": the heroine's destiny is determined not only by her sexual behavior, but also by friendship, and it does not always conform to the traditional marriage/death dichotomy.

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1993-10-01

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Original Research