Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière

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Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière is written by Suzanna van Dijk and published by Rodopi. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9042019980 (ISBN 10) and 9789042019980 (ISBN 13).

"As a Dutch woman who spent half her life in Switzerland and chose French as her writing language, Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charriere parades a defiant attitude towards the constraints of the literary field. To read with care her letters, her novels, pamphlets and plays means accepting some modifications to our picture of the Enlightenment, and obliges us to question the limits of the field of literary criticism such as it has been structured since the nineteenth century, that is, along the lines of national canons. This bilingual volume (English and French) contains articles based on contributions to the international congress that was organized at Utrecht University in April 2005 on the occasion of the bicentennial of the author's death."--BOOK JACKET.