Article ID: CBB020528050

Two proto-science-fiction novels written in French by eighteenth century women (2021)

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With Cyrano, Voltaire, and Verne, France provided important milestones in the history of early science fiction. However, even if the genre was not very common a few centuries ago, there were numerous additional contributions by French-speaking writers. In this paper, we review two cases of interplanetary novels written in the second half of the eighteenth century and sharing a rare particularity: their authors were female. Voyages de Milord Céton was imagined by Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert whereas Cornélie Wouters de Wasse conceived Le Char Volant. While their personal lives were very different, and their writing style too, both authors share in these novels a common philosophy in which equality—between ranks but also between genders—takes an important place. Their works thus clearly fit into the context of the Enlightenment.

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Authors & Contributors
Parent, Arnaud
Harvey, Karen
Carter, Noni D.
Dobie, Madeleine
Smith, Elise Lawton
Page, Judith W
Concepts
Science and gender
Women
Science and society
Science fiction
Science and literature
Women in science
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
France
Great Britain
Europe
Spain
Italy
Germany
Institutions
Lichfield Botanical Society
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