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100 1 0 _aVanoflen, Laurence
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700 1 0 _a Noûs, Camille
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245 0 0 _aTowards a greater equality
260 _c2021.
500 _a23
520 _aThe novelist Isabelle de Charrière displayed clear-sightedness towards social norms and what sociologists designate as gender construction. Her disillusioned commentary on the indignation caused by Godwin’s Caleb Williams in 1798 testifies to this. In making visible the symbolic violence exercised on women her novels and plays, as early as 1784, implicitly contest structures of domination. Endowing her heroines with new trajectories and “agency”, they re-establish de facto equality and postulate a genuine sense of universality at a time when the sentimental novel sets up gendered models. After shaking off the prescriptions of her own milieu and in her own life, she shows herself to be critical when the equality of citizenship leaves women out.
690 _adomestic novels
690 _asympathy
690 _astandardization
690 _aclass
690 _asentimental novel
690 _aagentivity
690 _adignity
690 _agenre
690 _aequality
690 _adomestic novels
690 _asympathy
690 _astandardization
690 _aclass
690 _asentimental novel
690 _aagentivity
690 _adignity
690 _agenre
690 _aequality
786 0 _nDix-huitième siècle | o 53 | 1 | 2021-06-28 | p. 615-631 | 0070-6760
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-huitieme-siecle-2021-1-page-615?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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