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The Sprites of Kernosy Castle : Volume 105, Paperback / softback Book

The Sprites of Kernosy Castle : Volume 105 Paperback / softback

Edited by Perry Gethner, Allison Stedman

Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series

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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.  

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