DOI: / Reading Olympe de Gouges

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1 DOI: / Reading Olympe de Gouges

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3 Reading Olympe de Gouges Carol L. Sherman DOI: /

4 reading olympe de gouges Copyright Carol L. Sherman, S o f t c o v e r r e p r i n t o f t h e h a r d c o v e r 1 s t e d i t i o n All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the United States a division of St. Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: PDF ISBN: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. First edition: doi: /

5 Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction 1 1 Reception 6 La Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne 7 L Esclavage des noirs 8 2 The Drama of Rhetoric 19 The daughter: Le Mémoire de Mme de Valmont 21 The citizen: letters 33 3 The Rhetoric of Drama 50 Schools for husbands 51 Schools for wives 67 Children and friends 79 Conclusion 104 Works Cited 108 Index 114 DOI: / v

6 Acknowledgments Acknowledgment is hereby made for permission to reprint material from the article entitled Polyphony and persuasion in de Gouges s Mémoire de Madame de Valmont in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 6 (Spring 2009) edited by Samia Spencer and published by the Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Acknowledgment is hereby made for permission to reprint material from the chapter titled Diderot and Olympe de Gouges Convert the Tyrant and Transform the Family in New Essays on Diderot edited by James Fowler and published by the Cambridge University Press in vi DOI: /