Isabelle de Charrière | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 38 pages of analysis & critique of Isabelle de Charrière.

Isabelle de Charrière | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 38 pages of analysis & critique of Isabelle de Charrière.
This section contains 10,539 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Kathleen M. Jaeger

SOURCE: "Charriére and the Androgynous Ideal," in Male and Female Roles in the Eighteenth Century: The Challenge to Replacement and Displacement in the Novels of Isabelle de Charriére, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1994, pp. 197-218.

In the essay below, Jaeger argues that Charriére strives for the equality of male and female voices in her work, rejecting the notion of sex-based difference, and advocating instead the full development of androgynous individual potential

In her introduction to the feminist edition of Caliste ou Lettres écrites de Lausanne [Paris: Editions des Femmes, 1979] Claudine Herrmann states the following:

L'une des idées intéressantes me paraît être que Caliste soit aimée en remplacement du frère, que la cousine soit épousée à cause de son fils et que la consolation finale soit trouvée dans une promenade touristique avec le jeune lord. On ne peut pas dire mieux...

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This section contains 10,539 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Kathleen M. Jaeger
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