Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction

Abstract

1. Reading faults 2. What the Princess left or, exemplary faults in La Princesse de Cle ves 3. Communicable faults or, repetition and transmission in fictions of women's correspondence 4. The spectral mother or, the fault of living on 5. Secret communications or, faults of transmission 6. Corinne's correspondences or, the fault of passing on Epilogue: Jane Austen's drawing room or, framing common faults Notes Bibliography Index.