Murat

réf. A9781649591067 — Paperback / softback. New. A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France. This novel reflects a shift in French values at the turn of the eighteenth century which saw increased interest in the private lives of the aristocracy and the pre-Enlightenment questioning of political and religious orthodoxies. Novels of fiction and leisure gained popularity and it was during this time that Henriette-Julie de Castelnau the Countess de Murat published her second leisure novel The Sprites of Kernosy Castle. Combining humor social satire and a proto-feminist outlook Murat crafts a well-constructed plot where the supernatural is debunked. Murat’s career was cut short when a series of “misdemeanors” related to the countess’s homosexual tendencies led to her arrest in 1702. Sprites which was released during a partial reprieve from prison is the final published work of this independent-minded early feminist author. Â paperback