Author: Madame de Villedieu
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Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Madame de Villedieu
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Klein's book provides the opportunity to read in English the innovative narratives of an illustrious woman author who played a prominent role on the literary scene in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Marie-Catherine de Desjardins de Villedieu produced over ten volumes of works that include plays, poetry, and narrative fictions. Today's critics attribute Villedieu with having created a new genre of literature, the nouvelle galante, in which the author recounts a series of gallant episodes, rather than the heroic actions so popular in the adventure stories of the first half of the 17th century.

Author: Madame de Villedieu
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226144216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Known as Madame de Villedieu, Marie-Catherine Desjardins (ca. 1640-83) was a prolific writer who played an important role in the evolution of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living, she defied cultural convention by becoming an innovator and appealing to popular tastes through fiction, drama, and poetry. Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière, a semi autobiographical novel, portrays an enterprising woman who writes the story of her life, a complex tale that runs counter to social expectations and novelistic conventions. A striking work, the story skillfully mixes real events from the author's life with fictional adventures. At a time when few women published, Villedieu's Memoirs is a significant achievement in creating a voice for the early modern woman writer. Produced while the French novel form was still in its infancy, it should be welcomed by any scholar of women's writing or the early development of the novel.

Author: Jeffrey S. Ravel
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801884160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This well-illustrated new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Contents include: ASECS Women's Caucus Roundtable: The Career and Work of Madelyn Gutwirth Carol Blum, Madeleine Dobie, Madelyn Gutwirth, Katherine Jensen, Sarah Maza, Karyna Szmurlo, and Janet Whately The Plantation and the Polis: Reform Ideology and the Generic Structure in Matthew Lewis' Journal of the West Indian Proprietor Ellen Malenas Give Us Our Daily Breadfruit: Bread Substitution in the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century Vanessa Smith The People Things Make: Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Properties of Self Mark Blackwell Covering Sexual Disguise: Passing Women and Generic Restraint Fraser Easton Sapphic Self-Fashioning in the Baroque Era: Women's Petrarchan Parody in English and Spanish, 1650–1700 Dianne Dugaw and Amanda W. Powell "Why, you . . . I oughta' . . . ": Aposiopesis and the Natural Language of the Passions, 1670–1770 Robert G. Dimit From Geneva to Glasgow: Rousseau and Adam Smith on the Theatre and Commercial Society Ryan Hanley Faux savants, femmes philosophes, and philosophes amoureux: Foibles of the philosophe on the Eighteenth-Century French Stage Anne Vila The New Paris in the Guise of the Old: Louis Sebastian Mercier from Old Regime to Revolution Joanna Stalnaker Carriages, Conversation, and A Sentimental Journey Danielle Bobker Hyperborean Atlantis: Jean-Sylvian Bailly, Madame Blavatsky, and the Nazi Myth Dan Edelstein

Author: Eva Martin Sartori
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Marie de France, Mme. De Sävignä, and Mme. De Lafayette achieved international reputations during periods when women in other European countries were able to write only letters, translations, religious tracts, and miscellaneous fragments. There were obstacles, but French women writers were more or less sustained and empowered by the French culture. Often unconventional in their personal lives and occupied with careers besides writing?as educators, painters, actresses, preachers, salon hostesses, labor organizers?these women did not wait for Simone de Beauvoir to tell them to make existential choices and have "projects in the world." French Women Writers describes the lives and careers of fifty-two literary figures from the twelfth century to the late twentieth. All the contributors are recognized authorities. Some of their subjects, like Colette and George Sand, are celebrated, and others are just now gaining critical notice. From Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre to Rachilde and Häl_ne Cixous, from Louise Labe to Marguerite Duras?these women speak through the centuries to issues of gender, sexuality, and language. French Women Writers now becomes widely available in this Bison Book edition.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1520

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Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Author: Marie Cathérine Hortense Desjardins de Villedieu
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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: William Barton
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: William Carew Hazlitt
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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