http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5361<\/a><\/p>\nOver
\nthe course of the eighteenth century in France, increasing numbers of
\nwomen, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to
\ncountesses and queens, became writers-not authors, and not mere signers
\nof names, but writers of letters. Taking as her inspiration a portrait
\nof an unknown woman writing a letter to her children by French painter
\nAd\u00e9la\u00efde Labille-Guiard, Dena Goodman challenges the deep-seated
\nassociation of women with love letters and proposes a counternarrative
\nof young women struggling with the challenges of the modern world
\nthrough the mediation of writing. In Becoming a Woman in the Age of
\nLetters, Goodman enters the lives and world of these women, drawing on
\ntheir letters, the cultural history of language and education, and the
\nmaterial culture of letter writing itself: inkstands, desks, and
\nwriting paper.<\/p>\n
Goodman follows the lives of elite women from
\nchildhood through their education in traditional convents and modern
\nprivate schools and into the shops and interior spaces in which
\nepistolary furnishings and furniture were made for, sold to, and used
\nby women who took pen in hand. Stationers set up fashionable shops,
\nmerchants developed lines of small writing desks, and the furnishings
\nand floor plans of homes changed to accommodate women’s needs. It was
\nas writers and consumers that women entered not only shops but also the
\nmodern world that was taking shape in Paris and other cities.<\/p>\n
Although
\nmany women, from major novelists, painters, and educators to
\nschoolgirls and their mothers as well as Parisian tourists and other
\nshoppers, come to life in this book, Goodman focuses on four bodies of
\nepistolary work by little-known women: the letters of Genevieve de
\nMalboissi\u00e8re, Manon Phlipon, Catherine de Saint-Pierre, and Sophie
\nSilvestre. These letters allow Goodman to explore how particular girls
\nof different social positions came to womanhood through letter writing.
\nShe shows how letter writing expanded women’s horizons even as it
\ndeepened their ability to reflect on themselves.<\/p>\n
The analysis of
\nmore than one hundred illustrations-from paintings by major Dutch and
\nFrench artists to inkstands and writing desks, stationers’ trade cards,
\nand manuscript letters on decorated paper-is integral to Goodman’s
\nargument.<\/p>\n
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