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Article: Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. By Whitney Walton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 308.
Walton's highly useful account of the relationship between republicanism and women's thought in and around the July Monarchy responds to a rapidly growing field of feminist scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies, yet identifies a gap which it fills effectively. The writers used to construct this critical narrative are George Sand (1804-76), Marie d'Agoult (1805-76), Hortense Allart (1801-79), and Delphine Gay de Girardin (1804-55), all of whom 'adhered to a vision of republicanism in ...