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There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière and Constant d'Hermenches (European Women Writers) - Softcover
Synopsis
The letters between a young Dutch woman and a Swiss soldier.
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About the Author
Janet and Malcolm Whatley live in Burlington, Vermont.Janet Whatley is a professor of French at the University of Vermont, specializing in the literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
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- PublisherBison Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0803264275
- ISBN 13 9780803264274
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages551
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There are no letters like yours: the correspondence of Isabelle de Charriere and Constant d'Hermenches.
Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Condition: as new. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Paperback. xxxv,549 pp. Condition : fine. - This animated, cultured correspondence begins almost like a romantic novel: high-born Dutch virgin, age 20, meets dashing older married man--a Swiss colonel with a reputation as a libertine--and they strike up a clandestine correspondence. Gossip alternates with deep thoughts and self-revelation in this 16-year epistolary friendship of Dutch novelist Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805), whose novels (written in French) have been compared to those of Jane Austen, and David-Louis, baron de Constant d'Hermenches (1722-1785), amateur musician and actor, pamphleteer and poet, friend of Voltaire. Isabelle van Tuyll (the novelist's maiden name) writes bright, witty, lucid letters spiked with epigrammatic wit, which weave a cunning self-portrait of a passionate, intelligent woman who oscillates between self-assertive independence and doing what her family and associates expect of her. D'Hermenches's letters, which swing between self-dramatization, moralizing and worldly advice, reflect the extended midlife crisis of a man who feels trapped in the role of misanthropic Don Juan, growing estranged from his wife and tired of upper-class pretensions. When the scheming baron tries to marry off Isabelle to his friend, the four-year fiasco ends with her fleeing to London in 1767 for a half-year vacation; she later marries a placid Swiss country gentleman. D'Hermenches's transfer to Corsica, where he helps the French crush a revolt, prompts his self-justifying letters full of carnage and Isabelle's tart replies doubting the motives of colonialism. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780803264274. Keywords : LITERARY CRITICISM, Charrière, Isabel de (Belle van Zuylen) (1740-1805). Seller Inventory # 3433
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There Are No Letters Like Yours: The Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrià re and Constant d'Hermenches (European Women Writers)
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paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . Seller Inventory # mon0003204177
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