Suellen Diaconoff is Professor of French at Colby College. She is the author of Eros and Power in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses": A Study in Evil.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue

1. Female Readers and l'espace du livre: A Quiet Revolution

2. Autobiography and Rereading
Manon Roland, 1754¿1793

3. The Romance as Transformative Reading
Félicité de Genlis, 1746¿1830

4. The Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Reading
Isabelle de Charrière, 1740¿1805

5. Reading Rape in the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century
Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, 1713¿1792

6. Books, Sex, and Reading the Fairy Tale
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, 1685¿1755
Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont, 1711¿1780

7. The Periodical Print Press for Women: An Enlightenment Forum for Females

Conclusion: The "Other" Revolution

Notes

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