Murat

A9781649591067 — Paperback / softback. New. <b>A subversive novel from 1710 that questioned political and aesthetic ideologies in eighteenth-century France.</b><br /><br /> 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 <i>The Sprites of Kernosy Castle</i>. 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. <i>Sprites</i> which was released during a partial reprieve from prison is the final published work of this independent-minded early feminist author.<br />  paperback