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The reader will hardly expect in 250 pages the history of two extraordinarily rich and original centuries of French literature, nor a comprehensive survey of that literature. The author must confine himself to the essentials. But what are the essentials? For the non-specialist reader, French literature is composed of a number of works, not neatly classified in the pigeonholes of this or that philosophy, but lining the shelves of our libraries--works...
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"How male medical authorities and female literary authors struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen - and competed to shape public understanding of it - is the focus of this engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating the gender politics underlying dramatic changes in reproductive theory and practice, Tucker shows just how tenuous the boundaries of scientific "fact" and marvelous fictions were in early modern France."
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This volume, the first English translation of "Morales du Grand Siècle" by the noted French scholar Paul Bénichou, fills the need for a critical study of the great French classicists of the 17th century. The study is constructed around the works of the dominant figures of that age--the dramatists Corneille, Racine, and Molière, and the philosopher Pascal--each reflecting the social and moral relationships that bound together the conditions of life...
13) Salonnières, furies, and fairies: the politics of gender and cultural change in absolutist France
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"Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies is a study of the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudery and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudery and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions. As both Scudery and d'Aulnoy wrote from within...
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