The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.

Julia V. Douthwaite recounts reports of feral children such as the wild girl of Champagne (captured in 1731 and baptized as Marie-Angélique Leblanc), offering a fascinating glimpse into beliefs about the difference between man and beast ...

Douthwaite explores how the works within this corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley.

The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.

La 4e de couverture indique : "La Révolution française évoque des foules violentes, la guillotine et la Bastille, mais il y eut aussi une révolution éditoriale : plus de 1200 romans ont été publiés entre 1789 et 1804, date à ...

La 4e de couverture indique : "La Révolution française évoque des foules violentes, la guillotine et la Bastille, mais il y eut aussi une révolution éditoriale : plus de 1200 romans ont été publiés entre 1789 et 1804, date à ...