TY - JOUR
T1 - The British Reception of Genlis’S Adèle et Théodore, Preceptive Fiction and the Professionalization of Handmade Literacies
AU - Ruwe, Donelle R
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PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Madame de Genlis’s Adéle et Théodore played a pivotal role in the development of the novel of education and its distinctive protagonist type, the powerful educating heroine. Genlis also had a lasting impact on the popularization and professionalization of handmade literacies, or hand-crafted children’s texts that are made for specific children within an intimate, domestic setting. Genlis’s particular contribution to the discourse of handmade literacies in Adelaide and Theodore is to turn a mother’s handmade literacies into mass-produced commodities. She not only describes how to create these items, she turns them into bestselling books. Genlis’s impressive and semi-autobiographical female heroine, the Baroness d’Almane, had a powerful impact on female British education writers such as Clara Reeve, Sarah Trimmer, and Anna Barbauld, who, in turn, mass-marketed their own literacy works and pedagogical fictions.
AB - Madame de Genlis’s Adéle et Théodore played a pivotal role in the development of the novel of education and its distinctive protagonist type, the powerful educating heroine. Genlis also had a lasting impact on the popularization and professionalization of handmade literacies, or hand-crafted children’s texts that are made for specific children within an intimate, domestic setting. Genlis’s particular contribution to the discourse of handmade literacies in Adelaide and Theodore is to turn a mother’s handmade literacies into mass-produced commodities. She not only describes how to create these items, she turns them into bestselling books. Genlis’s impressive and semi-autobiographical female heroine, the Baroness d’Almane, had a powerful impact on female British education writers such as Clara Reeve, Sarah Trimmer, and Anna Barbauld, who, in turn, mass-marketed their own literacy works and pedagogical fictions.
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U2 - 10.1080/09699082.2017.1323385
DO - 10.1080/09699082.2017.1323385
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019227017
SN - 0969-9082
VL - 25
SP - 5
EP - 20
JO - Women's Writing
JF - Women's Writing
IS - 1
ER -