Histoire d'Ernestine

An MLA Text Edition

von Marie Riccoboni, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni

114 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches on a portrait when the marquis de Clémengis, elegant and handsome, enters the studio. Recognizing him as the subject of the portrait, she gestures for him to be seated and goes on working, looking back and forth between him and his likeness. The world-weary aristocrat is smitten.In graceful, understated prose, Marie Riccoboni shows how her heroine learns to negotiate questions of honor and appearances and to find a precarious balance between economic security and the potentially compromising nature of male generosity. The story raises questions about sexual enlightenment and social prejudice and reexamines the links of money, reputation, and marriageability that preoccupied eighteenth-century writers.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780873527859
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1998
• Größe: 216 x 141 mm
• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Herausgegeben von: Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart