Recent archival research has focussed on the material conditions of marriage in eighteenth-century France, providing new insight into the social and judicial co
In the eighteenth century, when the definition of marriage was shifting from one based on an hierarchical model to one based on notions of love and mutuality, m
Set in Paris in the 1780s, Rétif de la Bretonne's novel Ingénue Saxancour is a thinly veiled account of his daughter's disastrous marriage to an abusive husba
Drawing on a wide range of English and French fiction and advice literature, this study analyzes the problems of representation that emerge in light of the chan
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age gover