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The Land of Lost Content explores the ways in which nineteenth-century French writers represented childhood and children in their work. Ranging widely through poetry, fiction, autobiographies, and letters, Rosemary Lloyd shows how writers as diverse as Baudelaire and Hector Malot, George Sand and Pierre Loti, Flaubert and Judith Gautier, gradually responded to changing concepts of the self. After a study of the problems and motifs which recur in autobiography,...
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"Draws attention to the struggles of women to enter the mainstream of French literature since 1876 and the special qualities of these French women writers"--Goodreads.com.
List of illustrations : Illustration from Gyp's novel, La Fee -- Madeleine de Scudery, 1607-1701 -- Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, 1633-1693 -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne, 1626-1696 -- Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael Holstein,...
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"As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and turned his name into a brand for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his...
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"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world, "--NoveList.
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than...
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