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Ingénue Saxancour; or, The Wife Separated from Her Husband
Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne
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Description
Set in Paris in the 1780s, Rétif de la Bretonne's novel Ingénue Saxancour is a thinly veiled account of his daughter's disastrous marriage to an abusive husband. From the time of her marriage in January 1780, until she left her husband in July 1785, Agnès Rétif suffered continually from severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Published in 1789, Rétif's novel scandalized the public with its graphic descriptions of his son-in-law's sexual perversity and brutal violence.
Rétif's novel remains shocking even two centuries later and continues to raise disturbing questions about power relations within abusive relationships. Perhaps most disturbing of all are the accusations leveled against Rétif himself concerning his motives for writing and publishing this account: Was he, as some charged, a shameless exhibitionist willing to reveal his family's darkest secrets merely to attract attention and broaden his readership? Was he an unscrupulous opportunist willing to capitalize on his daughter's misfortunes and risk her reputation simply to pay his debts? Or was he, as he himself claimed, trying to warn young women about the dangers of marrying men of dubious backgrounds against their parents' wishes?
Rétif was all this and more: a reform-minded pioneer far in advance of his time with his graphic portrayal of spousal abuse, his call for greater public awareness of this perennial problem, and his crusade for liberal divorce laws that would allow women to escape from abusive relationships and to remarry.
This is the first English translation of Ingénue Saxancour ever published and offers a wealth of background material on the novel and the real-life events that inspired it. It serves as a companion piece to the annotated French edition edited by Professor Trouille and published by the MHRA in 2014.
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Contenu
- Nombre de pages :
- 226
- Langue:
- Anglais
- Collection :
- Tome:
- n° 6
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9781781881828
- Date de parution :
- 28-02-17
- Format:
- Livre broché
- Format numérique:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Dimensions :
- 156 mm x 234 mm
- Poids :
- 322 g
