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The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern
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The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern Hardcover - 2001

by Carla Hesse

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Early in the spring of 1793, at he height of the revolutionary crisis in France, a middle-aged domestic cook named Jeanne-Catherine Clere frequented a Parisian cafe near her employer on the rue des Poules where she was in the habit of tippling a few and losing her senses.

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  • Title The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern
  • Author Carla Hesse
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
  • Date October 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780691074726 / 0691074720
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.87 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001021987
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.409

About the author

Carla Hesse is Professor of European History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris and the coeditor of several books, including Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Representations.

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Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Fine with personal owner name and date to front free endpapers; in a fine jacket. in fine dust-jacket. Small quarto in black color-illus jacket; xvi, 233 pages: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 157-220) and index. Contents: Women in the Modern Public Sphere --; The Perils of Eloquence --; Women into Print --; Female Authorship in the New Regime --; Self-Making: Politics, Ethics, Poetics --; Becoming Republican --; The Ethics of Unequals --; Fiction as Philosophy --; Bibliography of French Women, 1789-1800 --; Publishers and Publishing Locations of French Women: 1789-1800. / Women -- France -- History -- 19th century. Women -- France -- History -- 20th century. Femmes -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. Femmes -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. Intellectual life. Women. Vrouwen. Intellectuele vorming. Bibliografie Frau Frauenemanzipation Schriftstellerin Öffentlichkeit History. 1800-1999 Geschichte… Read More
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