La robinsonnade, une affaire de femme engagée au début du xix^e siècle

Rapidly translated throughout Europe, Daniel ­Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), extensively rewritten, serves as a matrix for the robinsonade, an essential novelistic model from the early days of youth literature. We see works ranging from Mme De ­Montolieu’s dialogue—full of freedom with Rousseauian prescriptions regarding fiction for young people—to the expression of political engagement : discreet in Eugénie Foa, more ­combative in the hands of the Catholic women authors Mme Mallès de Beaulieu and Mme Woillez.