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Love Notes and Letters
This volume offers the first translation into English of two seminal works by the seventeenth-century French woman author, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, better known as Madame de Villedieu. The first of these works, Lettres et billets galants [Love Notes and Letters], was published in 1668 and contains her most intimate letters to her lover, Antoine de Villedieu. The second work, Le Portefeuille [The Letter Case], which appeared in 1674, is an epistolary novel composed of a series of ten letters from the Marquis de Naumanoir to a nobleman in the provprovinces. These letters recount in a delightfully playful manner the amorous misadventures and intrigues of a half-dozen Parisian socialites. This work's close ties in terms of content and form to the publication of Villedieu's Lettres et billets gallants six years earlier make it a perfect complement. The author's introduction offers not only a critical interpretation of these works but stresses the importance of the publication of Desjardins' authentic correspondence as a turning point in her career and key to her later works.
Lost Books
Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.
Madame de Villedieu romancière
Analyse la modernité de la romancière Marie-Christine de Villedieu à travers de nouvelles orientations bibliographiques et de nouvelles perspectives critiques. Evoque le travail de l'auteure à travers d'autres oeuvres que "Les désordres de l'amour."
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries
"Original texts and translations are presented on facing pages, allowing readers to appreciate the vigor and variety of the French and the fidelity of the English versions. Divided into three chronological sections spanning the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume includes introductory essays by noted scholars of each era's poetry along with biographical sketches and bibliographical references for each poet."--BOOK JACKET.
Jean de La Fontaine
"L'univers poétique de La Fontaine se joue sous les bannières de l'illusion et de la tromperie. Si, dans les Fables et les Contes, son approche aux énigmes de la vie est ludique, cela ne l'empêche pas d'évoquer dans ses vers l'ambiance d'incertitude, de méfiance et de scepticisme qui déstabilise son époque. Pour bien comprendre son œuvre, il est essentiel de reconnaître ses racines intellectuelles. Des découvertes scientifiques menacent de bouleverser les idées reçues sur le monde physique et la culture environnante. Une multiplicité de perspectives devient alors possible; La Fontaine incorpore toutes ces notions dans sa propre esthétique. Dans le monde animalier des Fables, t...
Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
This interdisciplinary volume of eleven essays examines the idea and the reality of equality between the sexes in early modern France. It aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought.
Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
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