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The Female Protagonist in the «Nouvelles» of Madame de Villedieu

The Female Protagonist in the «Nouvelles» of Madame de Villedieu

Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara
Paulson, Michael G.
Klein, Nancy D.

Hardcover

Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Book 10

Literary CriticismFrench History

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ISBN10: 0820419656
ISBN13: 9780820419657
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Mar 1 1993
Pages: 221
Language: English
This book offers a major assessment of representative seventeenth-century nouvelles in France. The study shows how Mme de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), a popular and prolific writer at the time of Louis XIV, modified the genre creating a new form, the nouvelle galante. Dr. Klein traces changing concepts of form and at the same time changing modes of representing the female protagonists. One finds in Villedieu's narratives the emergence of a new image of the heroine who presents a new language and esthetic of love. Thoroughly researched, this well written book shows that Mme de Villedieu's influence as a writer was indeed far-reaching and long-lasting.

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