La Vertu feminine, de la cour de Sceaux a la guillotine

edited by Kim Gladu and Huguette Krief

Book cover: La Vertu feminine, de la cour de Sceaux a la guillotine

Extent: 273 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Studies

Series: Masculin/feminin dans l'Europe moderne

Series volume number: 34, 15

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9782406125822

Price: $36.00

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Hardback (Published)

(March 2022)

ISBN: 9782406125839

Price: $85.00

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This text considers the Enlightenment through the unprecedented prism of female virtue. It presents figures who embody its project of emancipation. Against a backdrop of polygenesis, it shows how exempla virtutis, the foundation of the Enlightenment imaginary, are heirs to humanism and gallant culture, among other things.

  • Edited by Marc André Bernier
  • Edited by Kim Gladu
  • Edited by Huguette Krief