Virtue's faults

Description:

This study focuses on fiction written by women in the eighteenth century to demonstrate how authors of the period implicitly examined and resisted patrilineal models of relationship, including the notions of literary tradition and of women's place in the family and the domestic sphere. The author's analysis of fiction from Lafayette to Austen argues that the concept of "correspondence," as exemplified in epistolary fiction, leads to a deeper understanding of the connections among French and English women's works of the period.

subjects: Comparative Literature,  English Epistolary fiction,  English and French,  English fiction,  Epistolary fiction, English,  Epistolary fiction, French,  French Epistolary fiction,  French and English,  French fiction,  History,  History and criticism,  Letter writing in literature,  Letters in literature,  Literature, Comparative,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Comparative literature, english and french,  Comparative literature, french and english,  English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century,  English fiction, women authors,  French fiction, women authors,  French fiction, history and criticism,  Letter-writing in literature

Places: France,  Great Britain

Times: 18th century