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La Réponse à l’écrit du colonel de La Harpe
Abstract:
As a female writer, Isabelle de Charrière experienced some difficulties in entering the political arena openly. This is the reason why she frequently published anonymously. Although in many cases this was an appropriate strategy, it proved to be counter-productive in the case of the Réponse à l’écrit du colonel de La Harpe (1797), which was the last of the political pamphlets she published. It seems to have been caused by a delicate ar-gument she uses in this text: those who were addressed by this political pamphlet, mostly men, could not, or only with difficulty, agree with the perspective adopted by Charrière.
By focusing on the relationship between the gender of the speaker and the pragmatics of discourse, this article has two objectives: first it ex-plains some of the difficulties met with by Charrière as a polemic writer (F) in her political texts; second it addresses the question of the rhetorical and philosophical biases occasioned by the research of a neutral enunciation.
SvD, February 2016
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