期刊名称：XVII-XVIII. Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
印刷版ISSN：0294-3798
电子版ISSN：2117-590X
出版年度：2018
期号：75
页码：1-2
DOI：10.4000/1718.1387
出版社：Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
摘要：Cornelia Dahmer’s monograph discusses a genre rising in popularity during the eighteenth century: conduct books aimed at young unmarried women from the “middling sort.” While this type of advice literature has been the subject of research before, Dahmer proposes a reading that opens up a new aspect of conduct books by focusing on an inherent yet long overlooked paradox at the heart of these texts: while a call for honesty and authenticity (the German term “Aufrichtigkeit” used in the book is ...
