{"product_id":"ingenue-saxancour-ou-la-femme-separee-the-wife-separated-from-her-husband-paperback-4","title":"Ingénue Saxancour ou La Femme séparée: [The Wife Separated from Her Husband] - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary Seidman Trouille\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Paris in the 1780s, Rétif de la Bretonne's \u003cem\u003eIngénue Saxancour\u003c\/em\u003e is a thinly veiled account of his daughter's disastrous marriage to an abusive husband. From the time of her marriage in January, 1780, until she left her husband in July, 1785, Agnès Rétif suffered continually from severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Published in 1789, Rétif's novel scandalized the public with its graphic descriptions of his son-in-law's sexual perversity and brutal violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRétif's novel remains shocking more than two centuries later and continues to raise disturbing questions about power relations within abusive relationships. Perhaps most disturbing of all are the accusations leveled against Rétif himself concerning his motives for writing and publishing this account: Was he, as some charged, a shameless exhibitionist willing to reveal his family's darkest secrets merely to attract attention and broaden his readership? Was he an unscrupulous opportunist willing to capitalize on his daughter's misfortunes and risk her reputation simply to pay his debts? Or was he, as he himself claimed, trying to warn young women about the dangers of marrying men of dubious backgrounds against their parents' wishes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRétif was all this and more: a reform-minded pioneer far in advance of his time with his graphic portrayal of spousal abuse, his call for greater public awareness of this perennial problem, and his crusade for liberal divorce laws that would allow women to escape from abusive relationships and to remarry. This, in fact, is what Agnès Rétif was able to do after passage of the divorce law passed by France's revolutionary government in 1792.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText in French with introduction and critical apparatus in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn English translation of the novel, also by Mary S. Trouille, was published in the MHRA's New Translations series in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48875205001465,"sku":"9781907322471","price":38.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OMoNFs5Zbs9781907322471_d8014cd6-c6c3-4588-bc06-1f4e504415a6.webp?v=1787333392","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ingenue-saxancour-ou-la-femme-separee-the-wife-separated-from-her-husband-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}