Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Régime FranceUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1992 - 211 pages Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society. |
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