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| - | 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.<br><br> | + | This article compares two novels of Isabelle de Charrière and Jane Austen: ''Trois femmes'' (1795) and ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813). Starting from Valérie Cossy’s idea that a link is established between female/male gender and literary genre in Charrière and Austen’s novels, it develops the connection further. Through the analysis of first the representation of marriage, second the construction of female and male protagonists, and finally the literary techniques in each novel, the author establishes that these elements weaken male and female divisions. In these novels, Charrière and Austen successfully deconstruct patriarchal conventions related to gender and literary genre, transgressing the limits by smoothly juggling with inventive and varied narrative techniques. In later novels, Austen and Charrière seem to surrender to patriarchal authority and demonstrate many contradictions. This movement backwards can be seen as a proof of their powerful ability to negotiate and recognize human complexity, not as a failure. |
| - | 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. | + | |
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| - | *Publications > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Cahiers_Isabelle_de_Charriere_/_Belle_de_Zuylen_Papers Belle de Zuylen Papers] > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/BELLE_DE_ZUYLEN_IN_HER_EUROPEAN_CONTEXT 2015] > Tieken-Boon van Ostade <br><br> | + | *Publications > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Cahiers_Isabelle_de_Charriere_/_Belle_de_Zuylen_Papers Belle de Zuylen Papers] > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/BELLE_DE_ZUYLEN_IN_HER_EUROPEAN_CONTEXT 2015] > Annart <br><br> |
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This article compares two novels of Isabelle de Charrière and Jane Austen: Trois femmes (1795) and Pride and Prejudice (1813). Starting from Valérie Cossy’s idea that a link is established between female/male gender and literary genre in Charrière and Austen’s novels, it develops the connection further. Through the analysis of first the representation of marriage, second the construction of female and male protagonists, and finally the literary techniques in each novel, the author establishes that these elements weaken male and female divisions. In these novels, Charrière and Austen successfully deconstruct patriarchal conventions related to gender and literary genre, transgressing the limits by smoothly juggling with inventive and varied narrative techniques. In later novels, Austen and Charrière seem to surrender to patriarchal authority and demonstrate many contradictions. This movement backwards can be seen as a proof of their powerful ability to negotiate and recognize human complexity, not as a failure.
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